To get this somewhat back on track I do understand Whineys frustration, lLX like most online leftist spaces pride themselves on being the smartest guys in the room so it almost causes an identity crisis to see things go so far off the rails. Like imagine going back in time to 2015 and telling yourself to sell everything and invest half your money in crypto and putting the other half on Donald Trump becoming President of the United States, and wondering what kind of fucking hellhole we’d fallen into. But as long as there have been stock markets or other forms of gambling there have always been those kinds of regrets. Crypto is not a zero-sum game, it’s negative-sum, and there are far more people losing their ass on this than buying houses and taking vacations. Again I was around for the online poker boom and surprise surprise everyone was “getting rich” then too. The network is so comically unsustainable that even the true believers acknowledge it’s probably gonna crash. But who knows??? Like everyone ITT I am starting to question reality a little.
― frogbs, Sunday, 2 January 2022 18:11 (two years ago) link