Shockingly I agree with the second part. Black people's optimism that America could actually be the nation it says it wants to be has always been treated as radical.
The first part is pure bullshit though, so YMMV.
The first part is pure bullshit though, so YMMV.
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1489648210842816516
This is the problem with an ideology like this. "Most people want more and better" is a fiction based in modernity. We have been conditioned to want more. And we no longer question where that all-consuming voraciousness comes from.
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1489648213208358912?t=f67N1r2CSdzhPrS72Y91mA&s=19
Most people do want "better". But we have better and won't give it to them. People aren't asking to go to the Mars. They just want a house. Telling them you have to go to Mars and eventually it will result in them getting a house... maybe. That's where this bullshit falls apart.
My ideology says something different. I believe there is a plateau of "more and better" that most people reach. Our continued consumption is driven by a small number of people who cannot be satisfied. Capitalists use scarcity to force us to feed their insatiable hunger.
As I continue to interrogate myself, I know that's why crypto is so offensive to me. It takes something we invented that is actually abundant and treats it like it's not. And it does that entirely for the sake of enriching some people at the expense of others.
My practical critiques still stand. But I do acknowledge that my bias is driven my moral critiques. Crypto is capitalism reified in the purest form we have yet seen. It is waste-driven consumption based on artificial scarcity for no other purpose than more capitalism.
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