sergefaguet

I have HPPD and it is kind of fun and not at all distressing or problematic for my life. Cool part of how my brain works.

Doesn’t require it but it is ok if that happens.

Change by definition requires breaking established rules and is how societies grow. Normal part of the process.

Yep my thoughts too. He writes like a juvenile philosophy student who has attended one too many gender studies class. The insecurity and mediocrity seeps from every sentence.

she will, and she will be heavily funded. i'd love to invest in her next thing.

right, everyone can build one of the world's best-known brands and become a billionaire. super easy, no talent needed.

Because he’s a very talented entrepreneur and that’s who investors want to bet on

Ahh, so nice that we developed cryptocurrencies with the explicit goal of making it impossible for UN trade bodies and other centralized actors to halt their rise :)

But good luck guys, you will need it!

well, the thing is existing institutions are completely fucked. governments simply do not represent us and there is no trust for them. we have not opted into these systems, they do not speak for us, and they are not legitimate.

we are indeed social creatures and we are developing new civic and social innovations. this mostly relates to actively opting into communities with people we like that share our values and that do not attempt to control us. and crypto/web3 enables us to exit the rotten institutions that try to coerce us into being part of them, and create new institutions that represent our values.

it is pretty obvious when you think about it. only institutions we actively and freely opt into can actually be legitimate.

and the idea that something that claims a monopoly on violence also claims to be legitimate is just completely, utterly laughable. and what is going on right now is that the clown car is finally flying off a cliff :)

I’m not ignoring this.

You are making the moral assumption that just because someone has a better negotiating position in a situation there is a moral obligation to intervene in some centralized way to “correct the imbalance.”

I am denying your assumption and presenting a different point of view which has no less of a claim to morality or truth than yours.

Interesting. I must have missed the point when unions became about voicing concerns. Last I recall, creating unions is an attempt at monopolizing labor to extort the employer. When this tactic is applied to any other factor of production it is called a “cartel” and engaged in “market manipulation.”

How surprising that employers who pay above-market wages do not wish to be extorted further. All the modern propaganda says they have to welcome this benevolent expression of democratic freedoms!

An extremely efficient and competent corporation doing everything it can to deliver goods cheaper and faster to hundreds of millions of people while creating value for tens of millions of shareholders? And now it has more and more impact running social services too?

How dare they do this travesty without democratic oversight. Clearly the best way forward is to regulate them so that they are on a level playing field with other democratically overseen government services.