The techno utopian dream of escaping the confines of the nation state is really just setting up shop under the protection of a neo colonial state. The fact that you have to steal someone else's lunch to get anything in crypto space, because they're not actually generating value their exchange,. Just transferring entor draining it to one place or another. For them, why it's not actually a desire and a pull to go in and say, i'm going to actually do some good with cryp slike not i'm actually going to figure i'll game this.
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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