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negativity towards "airdrop farmers" is misplaced and biased.

hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people all over the world have decided that doing microwork for protocols is their best path to economic prosperity. that is incredible and should be celebrated. 

it's on us to enable them to contribute positively.

micro work for economic prosperity should absolutely not be celebrated, honestly can't believe this is being said seriously

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selling workers on the idea of unpaid work in the hope of a potential future return has been the capitalist wet dream for a few decades. 

now that folks can invent money (which they get to pay to themselves too), the propaganda will become more and more prevalent.

In the grand scheme of things this kind of micro work seems more harmless than the gig economy, but yeah we should not be looking at airdrop farming as some kind of liberatory new economy