Edward Kleinbard: spikely recently starred in this ercial promoting coin cloud, which is a company that runs crypto currency. He asks if it's just the ordinary spirit of capitalism where any and every corporation adopts a superficial identity politics to legitimate their plunder and exploitation. Why would it make sense for you to give them a volatile asset when most americans have retirement savings, he says. "It doesn't really even matter if the people who are using it can get wiped out"
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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