A lot of people feel shut out, legitimately, of the traditional banking system. I think what crypto does it sort of turns you into a form ofand i'm going to mispronounce about homo economicsino and cryptonomics. And i think that's a terrible way to think money. But are ways in which you don't want to financialize everything?
Edward Ongweso Jr. and Jacob Silverman on cryptocurrency, NFTs, Elon Musk, the metaverse, meme stocks, and techno-utopianism amid the crushing reality of our neoliberal hellscape. The first in a two-episode series on crypto.
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