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That's a hopeful upside, that, say an 18 is learning data technology, programming etc. via crypto. My concern is whether that's what they are learning; too ear
by mjburgess 4y ago
That's a hopeful upside, that, say an 18 is learning data technology, programming etc. via crypto.
My concern is whether that's what they are learning; too early to tell, of course.
One thing I'm also thinking is that crypto functions like "wokeism" in the sense it seems a parallel right-wing version of the same kind of cultural reformation.
At the same time large retail biz profess their diversity credentials, their heads of research explain how crypto is on some timeline. At the same time a 20yo engages in activism for X, another engages in crypto for Y.
Do we need to "end the patriachy" or "put metriocracy on the blockchain" ?
My concern isnt just the skills issue, but also, everything bound up in the culture around it.
I think we're seeing Tech get to a level of cultural prestige that invites on-mass young-buyin, and mass cultish movements. No doubt finance experienced similar in the 80s.
But, I think, as finance people eventually learned to inculcate some level of cultural scepticism; tech seems it has yet to do so.
In otherwords, we're unprepared for this coming's generation having bought into a tech-culture landscape which is composed of scams.
- deebosong 4y agoNot saying I disagree with your concerns. But didn't Banksy say something similar about young artists being funneled into the for-profit corporate propaganda machine, trading their art skills and unique perspective (and expression of their interpretations) of the world at large, for a corporate paycheck? “The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.” Seems like every generation will need to battle with selling out, no matter the industry or era. But that being said, the web3 stuff feels pointedly scammier than even mobile/ social (which critics skewered even as it was burgeoning/ proliferating when it did, and people still rightfully criticize it today). ––– edited for posting wrong Banksy quote