I think it's a great point, and i want to start expanding it out, because crypto is one aspect of this, but there's much more to it, right? And one of the earliest aspects of this during the pandemic was the meam stock phenomenon. But what we found out later was, actually, a lot of people lost a lot of money when they were making the trades on that. It seems to completely miss what is actually going on when we talk about it in that way.
Paris Marx is joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. to discuss Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition, how technology is enabling an extension of speculation and gambling, and why those pressures need to be opposed.
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