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What's up with all of this financializing of everything??
by pHollda 4y ago
What's up with all of this financializing of everything??
- logn 4y agoCrypto/payment startups are a sort of sudoku distracting VC's and software engineers, building an abstract world of endless technical complexity that passes for fulfilling work.
- JohnCClarke 4y agoCapitalism
- update8887 4y agocapitali.sm
- update8887 4y agohttps://paidlink.to/l/QyiCPgyIAg https://paidlink.to/l/QyiCPgyIAg
- warkdarrior 4y agoFinancialization will continue until morale improves.
- the_third_wave 4y agoIt comes from the drive for "monetisation" which is the most recent form of alchemy. Where the alchemists of old tried to turn base metals into gold these monitists try to turn everything into a bunch of changed bits in a file on some bank's computer system. Future history will tell whether monetists had better luck than the alchemists of old.
- vyrotek 4y agoView this comment for $3! https://t.ly/T8hb https://t.ly/T8hb
- mritchie712 4y agothought this would be a link to an NFT. It's bad, but still better.
- brookst 4y agoI was 100% prepared to pay $3 to view your comment, and was sadly disappointed.
- behnamoh 4y agoGotta pay the bills somehow.
- eterevsky 4y agoBeats ads-driven publishing IMO. At least you are directly paying for what you are getting.
- fishtoaster 4y agoWhat's new here? People have been selling things online for 30 years and selling digital things (ebooks, zines, videos) for just as long. This is basically a lower-tech Gumroad.
- layer8 4y agoI believe it’s called capitalism.
- ChewFarceSkunk 4y agoWhat's up with the hypocrites who either have a paid job or spend other's earnings for a living but insist that other people must not charge money for what they do, whatever that is?