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Crypto is a nightmare from an ethics standpoint — it’s filled with scammers, grifters, liars, opportunists, crony capitalists, etc.

It also doesn’t shy away from racism, misogyny, homophobia, classism, etc.

But Vitalik making a communism joke? That’s where we draw the line 😤

𝒞𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓁 𝑒𝓃𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑒𝑒𝓇—𝒮𝓀𝑒𝓉𝒸𝒽.𝐹𝓊𝓃—𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓁𝓎 𝓃𝑒𝒾𝑔𝒽𝒷𝑜𝓇𝒽𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝓃𝑜𝑜𝒷—𝑒𝓉𝒽 𝓃𝑒𝓌𝒷𝒾𝑒 🌴

Two thoughts:

- Plenty of other powerful / influential actors in this industry with much weaker ethics and more suspect statements 

- I think it’s less about position / influence and more about moral consistency. Ie. Crypto puts Vitalik on a pedestal and then punishes him for stepping down from it, even for a joke

I think people are taking the joke more serious because of his position/influence. If this was any other random person does it really matter

He has been referring to communism in a serious matter in the past aswell. Imo its a massive L framing communism as something good no matter what adjective you slap before it.

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That was a post on April Fools with a provocative title

Is he sympathetic to communism? I doubt it if you mean the autocratic systems that murdered millions of people

But is it worth looking at the idea maze to reimagine economic systems (a la radical markets)? Absolutely 

But we won’t let our favorite philosopher king go there because we’d rather trauma dump on him

He has been referring to communism in a serious matter in the past aswell. Imo its a massive L framing communism as something good no matter what adjective you slap before it. 

 https://cryptorank.io/news/feed/9802e-vitalik-buterin-on-why-degen-communism

microsub.

Building /farcastle. Tryna help humans coordinate. Just /yeet it. TANSTAAFL! https://bootleggers.wtf/

It really just speaks to how brittle most of the cypherpunk larper ethos is.