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Yeah, she's literally, in that opening you quoted from, admitting to not having paid attention. Does the later choice of focus on the connection between bitcoi
by dmreedy 8y ago
Yeah, she's literally, in that opening you quoted from, admitting to not having paid attention.
Does the later choice of focus on the connection between bitcoin and, to quote, 'libertarian-shading-to-far-right` thinking render the observations she makes, on a cruise catering apparently to many people of that mindset, invalid?
- hudon 8y agoAren’t journalists paid to pay attention? I’ve never seen much “far right” in crypto land (fascism we’re talking about right?), as much as I’ve seen libertarianism or crypto-anarchy... this kind of naive “let's get rid of governments and everyone will be happy and cooperate peacefully” that Roger Ver espouses really well.
- dmreedy 8y agoAs software developers are paid to write code. And yet I couldn't begin to tell you the difference between Node and Angular.
- zamalek 8y agoYou haven't been paid to specifically research that difference.
- dmreedy 8y ago"paying attention" and "researching the difference" imply distinctly different patterns of activity. I was objecting to the former, and am asserting that the article is an exploration of one facet of the latter.
- skybrian 8y agoIf you think her editor was disappointed in how it came out, you don't know journalism very well. If they wanted someone to write knowledgeably about crypto, they would have hired someone else. Instead, the point seems to have been to pay a writer who didn't know much about it to go on the cruise and write about what happened. The only real qualification needed for this sort of piece is being able to talk to people and write well.
- beaconstudios 8y agolibertarianism IS far-right to the author.