Posted a thread on x about a post on Mastodon and now I’m casting it here.

Take that, efficiency!

Posted a thread on x about a post on Mastodon and now I’m casting it here.

Take that, efficiency!
https://x.com/thumbsupfinance/status/1731083788610945114?s=46&t=auEJg0j8z8efjvrjS7sWVw

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Well interestingly, I agree that we are in late stage of capitalism. I’m optimistic about the fact that we’re on the precipice of a new system. But I don’t believe it rebound into state communism as Marx hoped. That would be bad. The next thing looks like a hybrid, or perhaps a wholly undefined third system.

I wouldn’t feel too bad about it. The narrative on that part of the left is that capitalism / the modern world itself is bad and dying, “late stage”

They adopt everything useful anyway, just later and while complaining about it. They Uber to the protest.

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Yeah this is exactly my experience. All day every day it’s “the system is broken, banks are broken, governments are fascist, artists are exploited, voting is insecure, sending money abroad is impossible” and then you mention a blockchain solution to any of these and they’re like “sure bro”

whenever i've tried to discuss the tech with ppl i know (also left-leaning), they get very defensive bc it challenges/potentially threatens the illusion of security they feel with the status quo (that they also complain about.) so the response is to point at the ponzis and the enviro as a way to shut the convo down

Yes. I agree. Buying a more efficient clothes dryer will probably save more power than you could burn running an ETH validator. Using an air fryer instead of an oven. Hang drying your clothes. Not going on social media as long. 

People love to pick and choose what  they are willing to the count energy use of.

I mean the energy inefficiency argument is just a bad argument overall