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Dear Cryptoleft, I have a question for you: From my experience and knowledge (in France & in the US), it seems to me that left wing aligned ppl are more often than not, anti-crypto. Oftentimes because it's seem as a way to scam people, and often associated with finance, which is traditionally despised by the left. However, given the very nature of blockchains, being a decentralized and transparent alternative to our current information storage/communication system, which should 100% align with the leftwing standards, how come we're seeing so much dogmatism and lazyness to actually understand the technology, embrace it, and build leftwing aligned proposition? This really baffles me to be honest. Is there a deeper reason as to why things are this way? Making crypto a partisan issue is really the worst outcome possible...
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Anti-tech in general, not just crypto. Wasn’t always that way
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The current state of tech making established services worse than before is a very new phenomenon. A lot of the optimism I grew up with is being challenged by the current state of the industry
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Do you hav examples of that? (current state of tech making established services worse) I'm genuinely trying to think of some, but can't come up with something
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Ride-sharing and short-term rentals eroded a lot of the worker protections established in the taxi and hotel industries. The problems of social media creating divisive echo chambers is well known too. I'm hoping fc can be the place where we can get beyond the noise & toxicity on twitter & just communicate better
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Both of your answers are interesting, but I feel like there's more nuances to it. For instance, you took the angle of workers, not users, to justify that it got worse. For users, both ride share and short term rental are still useful imo (even if AirBnB tends to do a poor management of their dominent position...). While I follow you re: your reply re:Adobe suite for instance, I would argue that it's not all net negative. For instance, tech also enabled really reliable open source alternative solution to these products. Maybe we would have had them regardless, but it definitely got accelerated by the market opportunity to create something for users who churned out of that lifetime subscription model. It's also arguably a way to democratize the product for ppl who can't drop $500 or more on buying Photoshop for ex.
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I agree that there are nuances, but from the perspective of a leftist group the biggest priorities will always be the welfare of the workers in a system. So from that regard I think the usefulness of the ride-sharing/short-term rentals outweighs the cost. Ride-sharing thrives in places with underwhelming public transportation, and this can have a snowball effect that goes in line with slashes in government spending. Re: Adobe, I get your point of a lower monthly fee being useful for reducing the barrier to entry. However the manner in which they do this is predatory, making subscriptions difficult and expensive to cancel. The switch to subscription vs outright purchase has also come at a time where the level of improvement between versions has somewhat stagnated. As an After Effects user, it's been superficial upgrades for 4 years straight now. Open source platforms haven't really been able to come close to the quality of they offer just yet
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Hey @alixkun here's Cory Doctorow expanding on the point we were discussing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8&
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