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Instrumentalizing a show whose essential message was that living in a post-scarcity society is possible and where people pursue their interests genuinely rather
by Barrin92 5y ago
Instrumentalizing a show whose essential message was that living in a post-scarcity society is possible and where people pursue their interests genuinely rather than in the name of economic gain to make a case for crypto is so on brand with the actual post we're commenting on you could put it directly on the website
Let's just listen to the man himself for a second, while we're talking about star trek and money: https://youtu.be/PV4Oze9JEU0?t=143 https://youtu.be/PV4Oze9JEU0?t=143
- neilparikh 5y agoIt's even more ironic, because the entire point of NFTs is to create artificial scarcity in an environment without scarcity (the digital world). I guess you could argue that NFTs isn't the main aspect of cryptocurrencies, and I think you'd be right, but I find cryptocurrency projects in general seem to lean heavily into the scarcity aspect, and promise that early adopters will be able to cash in that scarcity later.
- 3np 5y ago> I guess you could argue that NFTs isn't the main aspect of cryptocurrencies Not even a major aspect. Just like neither are the main aspect(s) of Web3. Despite what con artists and puppet farms on Reddit and Twitter are pushing. (The web3 moniker in its current form came years before the first NFT contract)