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Times have been bad for me all of the way and so now everyone I meet looks like they're living in some kind of delusion/trance/bubble. Hopefully bad times for t

Times have been bad for me all of the way and so now everyone I meet looks like they're living in some kind of delusion/trance/bubble. Hopefully bad times for these people will mean good times for me at last. It's hard for me to imagine how times could get any worse. Maybe some Stalin-like mass purges of intellectuals...

hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago
Intellectuals, eh? I'm in the clear then.
pixl97 3y ago
It is statements like this that honestly question what kind of delusion bubble you live in... I implore you to study a lot of history from all over the world. History you like, history you don't like. History of democracy, history of authoritarians. History of kings and of the elected. And I'm saying this because while things may be bad for you, in general they are better for more people than ever. There is no bottom to worse, it can always get so much more worse than you can imagine, and that's even at the point where you believe it cannot possibly get worse. It really does require understanding how things to go bad to make a world that gets better.
- jongjong 3y ago
  I worked in crypto. It seems that if you work in that industry and actually try to improve a project, the whole social apparatus turns against you. On the other hand, I've seen plenty of scam projects where the founders keep getting funding from government organizations and they just waste all the money and keep receiving more investment even though they objectively achieved nothing. After leaving crypto, I saw opportunities dry up, people seemed to pull out of my projects for no reason, friends/colleagues I worked with closely for over 2 years stopped answering my texts, also for no reason. I also got fired for no reason after the boss had been praising my work for 6 months straight. Just a lot of weird stuff. Not sure if it's because cryptocurrency sector has stigma behind it or because of something more sinister. Anyway, it's a mistake to think that things are good for everyone. There is a lot of nasty stuff going on behind the scenes. Many people's good fortune is built directly on the back of the suffering of others, often without them realizing.
  - pixl97 3y ago
    >I worked in crypto. Well, this could be part of the problem. The average person looks at this and associates it with a scam. >After leaving crypto, I saw opportunities dry up, people seemed to pull out of my projects for no reason I wouldn't say for no reason, SBF did a really good job of making anything even close to the coin world completely and totally toxic. >Anyway, it's a mistake to think that things are good for everyone I never said that exactly... I said on average things are getting better and just because you're having a bad day it is not a legitimate excuse to elect the next hitler and burn the world down. Making things worse is easy, making things better is extremely hard.

hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago

Intellectuals, eh? I'm in the clear then.

pixl97 3y ago

It is statements like this that honestly question what kind of delusion bubble you live in... I implore you to study a lot of history from all over the world. History you like, history you don't like. History of democracy, history of authoritarians. History of kings and of the elected. And I'm saying this because while things may be bad for you, in general they are better for more people than ever. There is no bottom to worse, it can always get so much more worse than you can imagine, and that's even at the point where you believe it cannot possibly get worse. It really does require understanding how things to go bad to make a world that gets better.

jongjong 3y ago
I worked in crypto. It seems that if you work in that industry and actually try to improve a project, the whole social apparatus turns against you. On the other hand, I've seen plenty of scam projects where the founders keep getting funding from government organizations and they just waste all the money and keep receiving more investment even though they objectively achieved nothing. After leaving crypto, I saw opportunities dry up, people seemed to pull out of my projects for no reason, friends/colleagues I worked with closely for over 2 years stopped answering my texts, also for no reason. I also got fired for no reason after the boss had been praising my work for 6 months straight. Just a lot of weird stuff. Not sure if it's because cryptocurrency sector has stigma behind it or because of something more sinister. Anyway, it's a mistake to think that things are good for everyone. There is a lot of nasty stuff going on behind the scenes. Many people's good fortune is built directly on the back of the suffering of others, often without them realizing.
- pixl97 3y ago
  >I worked in crypto. Well, this could be part of the problem. The average person looks at this and associates it with a scam. >After leaving crypto, I saw opportunities dry up, people seemed to pull out of my projects for no reason I wouldn't say for no reason, SBF did a really good job of making anything even close to the coin world completely and totally toxic. >Anyway, it's a mistake to think that things are good for everyone I never said that exactly... I said on average things are getting better and just because you're having a bad day it is not a legitimate excuse to elect the next hitler and burn the world down. Making things worse is easy, making things better is extremely hard.