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>Metaverse and crypto will be a bust I love when HN netizens just throw stuff like this out without further explanation. It's as if they're monks reciting the

• flumpcakes 4y ago
  It is probably the default safe position. I think there would be a larger need in explaining how they won't be a "bust" compared to saying that they will. The internet needed explaining to many people to see it's real advantages before it took off.
• wpietri 4y ago
  People have viewpoints. They have enough of them that explaining them in detail every time they come up would be tedious. You and I both could write up plausible explanations of what he might mean by that, as both those topics are already discussed to death here. There's no particular reason to think he's being dogmatic, just pithy. I'll also note that it would be easy to make the same accusation about your own posts. E.g.: "The contemporary democratic nation state is a facade over a distributed and decentralized oligarchy." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837598 But presumably you see yourself as holding that position for non-dogmatic reasons, so I'd encourage you to do the same for others.
  • WFHRenaissance 4y ago
    Granted, my post is a reference to history (the iron rule of oligarchy is well-documented... polemic tone aside hehehe). OP's post is speculative.
• anthonypasq 4y ago
  Every single person on this forum would have predicted every social media company to be dead on arrival.