You’re going to call protestors “agitators” while the broligarchs keep coming up with the most outrageous, evil bullshit they could think of, just for the hell of it.
Look into the history of libertarians trying to set up paradises of like minded people to find out why this will fail. They start into the 19th century and just keep failing.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 month ago
Because they want to build and experiment without all the red tape. Of course they do and people have to relearn why regulations are written in blood.
They hate the FDA, but one of the reasons it exists was because some folks sold radioactive beverages, mascara that caused blindness, a bunch of snake oil and medicine that killed people and/or caused deformities.
Adventures with financial deregulation and crypto haven’t been much better so far.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
BTC is useful though.
It’s very easy to judge from the EU, but if you are in Russia and need to pay for something in the interwebs, it’s very convenient to have an imperfect, but kinda functioning system like this.
(Idiots replying with “go rebel” or “change location” need not bother, I happen to have family, friends, dog, ASD and BAD, my sister who’s on my support every time she makes a planning mistake can change location, I can’t. I’m also not a Jedi chosen one to have useful options of “rebelling”.)
Luffy879@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Btc is not a reliable payment system. It is neither stable, nor is it in any way anonymous. So if everyone would start using Btc, I could track everyones every move.
Or in better words: ever heard about Monero?
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 month ago
BTC also uses massive amounts of resources, and we have an impending climate crisis hands. Tell me, how is that useful to further the climate destabilization for whatever momentary convenience you think you have. We’re gonna be really sorry in 5-10 years as this thing accelerates. We are getting some seriously bad news in the scientific community right now bcz we are far outpacing even the most pessimistic studies on warming and CO2 output. We have dumbasses in charge who want to pretend climate change doesn’t exist.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 month ago
It’s the deregulated part that’s an issue when people lose their life savings and nobody can help them because no regulations.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You mean those really cool conductive rubber dome over PCB with slider keyboards, right?
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unphazed@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Let em do it at Point Nemo