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It's no worse than sports, pokie or video game gambling and those are "accepted" in society. The public has been casting lots forever[0]. Some people want to p
by barrysteve 4y ago
It's no worse than sports, pokie or video game gambling and those are "accepted" in society.
The public has been casting lots forever[0]. Some people want to put their fate/outcome in some random system like dice, stocks or crypto. Those systems aren't truly random, but from the perspective of the participants it's close enough.
There is a theological topic on Cleromancy[1], the attempt to perceive gods will by casting lots (rolling dice or whatever) and interpreting the outcome as divine will. Many people do amazingly dangerous things like banging their mortgage into a crypto stock and rationalize the outcome for the winner as being "lucky" or the "universe" made it happen. These overlap with faith based patterns we've seen before.
Casinos and all that rig the odds so that the system of providing "random" outcomes can last forever as a corporation. But the human desire lasts forever, to put their fate in the hands of an external uncontrollable source. Crypto is just another method of casting lots for some members of the public.
Crypto is riding this wave of Roaring Twenties style excess we're living through at the moment. Get out by the end of the 2020s and you'll do okay.
[0]https://earlychurchhistory.org/beliefs-2/casting-lots-in-the-bible/ https://earlychurchhistory.org/beliefs-2/casting-lots-in-the...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleromancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleromancy