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NFTs are such a banal, dystopic form of late stage capitalism
by ranma4703 5y ago
NFTs are such a banal, dystopic form of late stage capitalism
- swebs 5y agoI'd say the blue checkmarks are a better example. They're a stamp of approval from the global corporate hegemony. You can even have yours taken away for expressing unapproved thought.
- lowmagnet 5y agoIf they were just proof that someone verified identity, and anyone could get one, they'd be a good feature. But Twitter wanted them to be culturally significant or famous people, and that's where it fell apart. As for expressing unapproved thought, I all BS on your statement. There are blue-checked people who continued to express heterodox thought who kept their checks right up until they were permanently banned for TOS reasons.
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- can16358p 5y agoI don't think NFTs inherently are, but how they are used by the get-rich-quick schemes definitely is.
- grishka 5y agoYou can't not participate in capitalism at all because it's required in some capacity if you would like to use any of the benefits of living in a society. You have to live somewhere and eat something, and you either pay money for that, or do everything yourself, using most of your waking time just to survive, like a caveman. But you're free to act like NFTs don't exist without that having any impact on your day-to-day life.