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The very same people complain about Nanny State when they’re stopped from getting scammed, and scream for justice and legal action once they manage to get scamm
by nikanj 5y ago
The very same people complain about Nanny State when they’re stopped from getting scammed, and scream for justice and legal action once they manage to get scammed after all.
See also: people getting absolutely furious when the bank stops them from wiring money to Nigerian scammers for their million-dollar lottery win - and then demanding the same bank reverses the transactions after the jig is up.
They want to freely gamble with cryptos now that everything is going to the moon, but are going to be demanding answers once the bubble pops and the casino takes their life savings
- motohagiography 5y agoThat sensibility is captured well by Jenny Holzer's statement, "Protect me from what I want", which neglects responsibility and puts it on other people whether they want it or not. It's a human personality anti-pattern we generally just tolerate. Cryptocurrencies represent a respite from the logic of that idea and allow for mutual tolerance, presumably as an alternative to organizing and fighting. It's not so much a nanny state as a mad aunt in the attic state. (e.g. MMT) Nanny state is an oddly gendered trope, but it's meant to represent not just oversight, but Animus. My argument is essentially that most anti-crypto articles I've read are an expression of ideas that originate from a neurotic animus and an affected condescention that the rest of us just don't buy.