You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about and from how you meander around your little idea it's obvious that there you have absolutely no idea what you're doing in life
The nazis are waiting for you in the shadows. We smell your weakness. We will taste your blood. You know you are weak. You will submit to us and die. You will watch as we consume all that you are.
In case you're completely retarded, almost all of the media, education system, political system, and market are controlled directly by a centralized entity - the banking system.
BUT IT'S SO SURPRISING THE SAME SPECIFIC NARRATIVE APPEARS UNIFORMLY WITH LITTLE COSMETIC CHANGE IN JUST ABOUT EVERY SINGLE MAINSTREAM NEWS OUTLET
LOL THAT'S FUNNY, I GUESS EVERYONE SUDDENLY IS TERRIFIED OF NAZIS EVEN AFTER 75 YEARS OF WW2 VICTORY
I BET THERE'S NO CONSPIRACY, CONSPIRACY IS A SILLY WORD FOR THE BAD BOYS WHO DO BAD STUFF AND AREN'T SMART LIKE ME
Now that's some definite projection. You troll slashdot like a paid shill trying to slam on things that you find a threat to you. You have no reasoning. You're just trained on fake social feedback from obsessing over this site. You're totally and completely insane. Get a grip.
You are one of those incredibly mentally ill trolls that just has to piss over your territory aren't you? You're losing, you're going to lose, and you are going to be kicked out after. No place in the world for belligerent stupid dinosaurs. We have bots to do your jobs now. Byebye obsolete flesh bot, the real human beings are taking over now.
One thing is for sure: crypto is here to stay. The only question is which blockchains will fill which roles
Crypto may be inflated, it may not be. The economy is doing very well (see: all time market highs) and it's going to keep going better with tax reform that decreases the economic burden on the middle class and businesses, especially small businesses. This provides a very good opportunity to introduce crypto transactions to the general economy. If crypto finds footing in this growing economy, especially in small business, the market will not pop, it will blow up.
Anti-Bitcoin Sentiment on/. explained: You have a bunch of "tech people" who had a major tech happening going on right under their noses and they missed out on it because they were afraid to try it, now they have to denigrate to feel better.
That's the thing about most "tech workers", they just do their job, they generally don't know anything at all about innovation or the ways of competition (the way of the world), but they like to give themselves credit for driving innovation and progress anyway. So it stings them to see that they are proved wrong.
People are being brainwashed into stupid animals because the establishment is desperate to maintain itself but this time they control too much and we are all going to die if some one doesn't stop them before they collapse themselves
ok and how does that effect you why is that significant to anything
that's half of an open insult to be objective
so that is the best example you can come up with? he engaged in insult with some one else who insulted him? that's why he's making your life difficult?
Facebook is evil and everyone with a brain knows it.
Facebook was so invested in because its potential to break down society was realized by its big investors. It wasn't a shot in the dark with their billions of dollars. It wasn't a surprise that social media would transform our society. They knew what it was to become and it profits them immensely. Why do they want to break down society? Because they want to increase the level of control they have. Instead of programming society on the scale of groups, they want to control every atom; every individual, and open up new roads to exponentially more power.
People always explain away things like this saying "well that's just what people want and the company is just giving them what they want and making money, so this isn't really bad, this is progress! There's no conspiracy! People are smart, they aren't so easily suckered into things! They know what's good!"
The thing is that people are actually not that picky. They will accept just about ANY given solution for their basic needs as long as authority backs it consistently enough. So it becomes a question of what exactly we are progressing towards and who's interest it really is in.
Humans are not some transcendent creature with the guarantee of self awareness and intellect and rationality because of how much inherently better they are than all other life on Earth. These are optional features supported by a certain way of life. If you take away the nuances from the human way of life, if you take away the culture that support these higher functions, people go into "backward compatibility mode"; they re-adapt to a simpler, savage, prehistoric world. Simply put they devolve.
While most people don't know themselves well enough to see this, there are people who know this about humanity, and they know about it deeply. These people are leaders. Leaders either choose to try to raise people up to their own level of awareness or leaders choose to plunge people down so they can never rise up. Leaders choose either cooperation or enslavement.
Humans are tribal creatures. They are beyond racist. They are beyond nepotistic. They will kill members of their own families who displease them. Humans are not only genocidal by default, they a fratricidal by default. We can see this at every point in our history. We can see this in our close relatives like the chimpanzee that continue to live a way of life that we departed from eons ago.
Leaders cooperate and enslave in degrees. The closer you are to directly supporting the substance of the leader, that is, the more you share in common with the leader that you align with that leader's will, the more cooperation you will receive. The further, the more enslavement you will receive, up to the point that when your interests drift sufficiently you are immediately killed or otherwise neutralized. What this amounts to is simple: as time goes on you will only become more distant and unable to adapt to the leader. The leader's own will replace everyone else. Eventually you drift into the zone of no return in relation to a current leader and unless the leader changes, your line will end: you, your family, your children all die and there are no more children thereafter. Usually this takes a long time, so long that the diverse interests in the world shift and leaders change and most tribes survive at least long enough to make a compromise and intermingle with the dominant tribe. But things are becoming unusual: power is being consolidated on unprecedented scales with unprecedented stability, and it is making ever more exacting demands on its subjects as their numbers swell to challenge the Earth's ability to sustain them. Humanity's genocidal nature has risen to the surface.
This all sounds very grim, until you consider the fact we've been up and down this situation for millions of years and have some pretty good solutions to the pitfalls and the problems that lead to them. All the machinery is in place for us to CHOOSE our own leaders. A
What exactly have they done that another administration wouldn't have done?
Honestly, you people blame the specific administration for the flaws in the system. Your attention span is far too low and you are far too susceptible to media influence. Instead of asserting your interests you blame and whine, enabling such administrations to come to power again because of all the people who get sick of your self-righteous, unjust, and unproductive whining and get especially sick of the people who take advantage of it to do worse.
The problem isn't Trump, it's a culture of failure, it's a glut of material - people give up on their responsibilities too easily because they prefer to be distracted. Civic responsibility is of the utmost importance but most people draw the line at getting a job and barking and whining at the changes in the wind.
The bulk of our society is doomed. We simply have to start over with people who haven't been corrupted and let the rest rot in the world of their own choosing.
Yes I do. I insist that I do and I will fight you or anyone else to the death who denies my right. I have a right to be part of public discourse, I have a right to be int he same place as the majority and speak freely there. The livelihood, my future, and my freedom depend on this. So no matter what lesser or false law or rule would forbid me from doing so, I will do it anyway and if anyone tries to stop me I will fight back to the point of killing them or being killed myself if need be.
No, it's cooperation. Everything you see around you is the result of cooperation.
And how would we know what to cooperate about if an individual didn't propose a way to do things and assert it's superiority above all others?
Marxism is characterized by inventing a class of oppressors (evil nazi white supremacist hate bigots in this case) and pitting the most easily influenceable part of the population against them (poor people in almost every case). The whole farce about capital always rotting in the hands of a few oligarchs unless the state steps in and micromanages everything is just a lie to give the controllers of the state the wealth and let it rot the same way they claim they will prevent it from rotting.
It turns out you do not even know what freedom is or what life is about and that you are the one who hates what is right.
From the article: The town of Chickasaw, Alabama, was a company town near Mobile, Alabama, which was owned and operated by the Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation ("Gulf"). Aside from the fact that it was owned by a private entity, the town exhibited the general characteristics of a more traditional settlement. The town's policeman was a deputy from the Mobile County Sheriff's Department who was paid by Gulf. The town was surrounded by a number of adjacent neighborhoods which were not located on Gulf property. The Court noted that the residents of these non-Gulf neighborhoods were freely allowed to use the company-owned streets and sidewalks to access the town's businesses and facilities.
The appellant, Marsh, a Jehovah's Witness, stood near the post office one day, and began distributing religious literature. Marsh was warned that she needed a permit to do so.and that none would be issued to her. When she was asked to leave, she refused on the grounds that the company rule could not be constitutionally applied to her. The deputy sheriff arrested her and she was charged with the Alabama criminal code's trespassing equivalent.
During her trial, Marsh contended that the statute could not be constitutionally applied to her, as it would necessarily violate her rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. This contention was rejected and Marsh was convicted. The Alabama Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction, holding that the statute as applied was constitutional because the title to the sidewalk was in the corporation's name and the public use of the sidewalk had not been such as to give rise to a presumption under Alabama law of its irrevocable dedication to the public. The Alabama Supreme Court denied certiorari, and Marsh appealed her case directly to the United States Supreme Court.
In a 5-3 decision, the court ruled in favor of Marsh. The opinion, joined by three justices, was authored by Justice Hugo Black, with Justice Felix Frankfurter authoring a concurrence, and Justice Stanley Forman Reed authoring a dissent.
Yes. Those snowflakes and their children are going to be jockeyed into leadership positions in this society. They need to be intolerant in order to perpetrate the horrible violence they are supposed to actuate. See: Communism in eastern europe. That is what is in store for us if we don't fight back against this (cultural) marxist insanity.
You are probably not qualified to call anyone names, much less support the curtailment of their freedoms based on these judgements. You wave your hand and try to dehumanize others. You are missing the most important aspect of life: competition. You are claiming to be better but you refuse to compete. You are basically claiming to be a god on earth and above competition from the "mean things".
cried fowl
AVIAN BEAST! BIRD! BIRD!
In all seriousness twitter has never really been a place where any even slightly valuable dialogue takes place
Says you. Are the thoughts and actions of the hundreds of million people who use it invalid? Do they matter to nothing? Yet they are influenced by what they read on twitter. It's an important platform and it should by right be free for all to use.
The thing about marxist enforcement outlets is that they tend to be propped up regardless of profit. The hidden value is in how they are used to condition the population. They will be propped up as long as people keep going there. They will get endless investments for their contribution to the status quo, for their effort in rendering the human capital in this society to liquid.
Facebook is evil and everyone with a brain knows it.
Facebook was so invested in because its potential to break down society was realized by its big investors. It wasn't a shot in the dark with their billions of dollars. It wasn't a surprise that social media would transform our society. They knew what it was to become and it profits them immensely. Why do they want to break down society? Because they want to increase the level of control they have. Instead of programming society on the scale of groups, they want to control every atom; every individual, and open up new roads to exponentially more power.
People always explain away things like this saying "well that's just what people want and the company is just giving them what they want and making money, so this isn't really bad, this is progress! There's no conspiracy! People are smart, they aren't so easily suckered into things! They know what's good!"
The thing is that people are actually not that picky. They will accept just about ANY given solution for their basic needs as long as authority backs it consistently enough. So it becomes a question of what exactly we are progressing towards and who's interest it really is in.
Humans are not some transcendent creature with the guarantee of self awareness and intellect and rationality because of how much inherently better they are than all other life on Earth. These are optional features supported by a certain way of life. If you take away the nuances from the human way of life, if you take away the culture that support these higher functions, people go into "backward compatibility mode"; they re-adapt to a simpler, savage, prehistoric world. Simply put they devolve.
While most people don't know themselves well enough to see this, there are people who know this about humanity, and they know about it deeply. These people are leaders. Leaders either choose to try to raise people up to their own level of awareness or leaders choose to plunge people down so they can never rise up. Leaders choose either cooperation or enslavement.
Humans are tribal creatures. They are beyond racist. They are beyond nepotistic. They will kill members of their own families who displease them. Humans are not only genocidal by default, they a fratricidal by default. We can see this at every point in our history. We can see this in our close relatives like the chimpanzee that continue to live a way of life that we departed from eons ago.
Leaders cooperate and enslave in degrees. The closer you are to directly supporting the substance of the leader, that is, the more you share in common with the leader that you align with that leader's will, the more cooperation you will receive. The further, the more enslavement you will receive, up to the point that when your interests drift sufficiently you are immediately killed or otherwise neutralized. What this amounts to is simple: as time goes on you will only become more distant and unable to adapt to the leader. The leader's own will replace everyone else. Eventually you drift into the zone of no return in relation to a current leader and unless the leader changes, your line will end: you, your family, your children all die and there are no more children thereafter. Usually this takes a long time, so long that the diverse interests in the world shift and leaders change and most tribes survive at least long enough to make a compromise and intermingle with the dominant tribe. But things are becoming unusual: power is being consolidated on unprecedented scales with unprecedented stability, and it is making ever more exacting demands on its subjects as their numbers swell to challenge the Earth's ability to sustain them. Humanity's genocidal nature has risen to the surface.
This all sounds very grim, until you consider the fact we've been up and down this situation for millions of years and have some pretty good solutions to the pitfalls and the problems that lead to them. All the machinery is in place for us to CHOOSE our own leaders. A
You really have points at all. You are strawmanning and making fluffy statements, that's all.
You have no concept of the selling point of Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies. If we are going to be as reductive as you prefer to be, the point is to replace the global central banking system and free people from debt slavery.
*It doesn't matter if Bitcoin is bad for daily transactions. It can still hold value. It is finding a role as a reserve currency that is sold to obtain other currencies that are better used for instantaneous transactions. *This is a new system in the process of being hammered out. Volatility is a precursor to stability. The fact that it is volatile cannot be used to predict its future. *Bitcoin is being used to trade for more instantaneously usable currencies *Again *Cash money and transportable assets are the favored targets of thieves. So what? *Governments have absolutely no way to stop this. What are you talking about? If there are restrictive regulations people will just do it anyway.
Basically you just seem to be terrified of anything changing and are trying to justify your irrationality. You are anything but "Insightful".
Your point of view is reflexively contrarian and totally invalid. You have completely failed to consider what the purpose of art is. You have completely failed to consider the effect of technical labor on the overall direction of the art which is made by it.
To keep this short, basically there gets to be a point where the tools do too much work and people become trained on superficial aspects of art and it becomes trivial to distract any given person in a state of mindlessness by generating some slightly new variation of superficial aspects from an old work. We are already deep, deep in this phenomenon and our society is crumbling as a result. Public discourse is utterly failing. Most people have lost their grip on reality and live in an echo chamber.
And you think accelerating this process by validating their mental illness by tailoring entertaining experiences to their twisted whims will be a good thing?
Slashdot Mirror
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about and from how you meander around your little idea it's obvious that there you have absolutely no idea what you're doing in life
The nazis are waiting for you in the shadows. We smell your weakness. We will taste your blood.
You know you are weak. You will submit to us and die. You will watch as we consume all that you are.
In case you're completely retarded, almost all of the media, education system, political system, and market are controlled directly by a centralized entity - the banking system.
BUT IT'S SO SURPRISING THE SAME SPECIFIC NARRATIVE APPEARS UNIFORMLY WITH LITTLE COSMETIC CHANGE IN JUST ABOUT EVERY SINGLE MAINSTREAM NEWS OUTLET
LOL THAT'S FUNNY, I GUESS EVERYONE SUDDENLY IS TERRIFIED OF NAZIS EVEN AFTER 75 YEARS OF WW2 VICTORY
I BET THERE'S NO CONSPIRACY, CONSPIRACY IS A SILLY WORD FOR THE BAD BOYS WHO DO BAD STUFF AND AREN'T SMART LIKE ME
....I interacted with liberal divide-and-conquer propaganda on Slashdot during the aftermath of the 2016 election?
Oh, never mind, I figured it out.
Actually he kind of was. Nice virtue signalling though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It all comes down to a matter of trust in authority, not what is being claimed by either side.
You're consistently, in nearly every comment you make here, a blithering moron trying to shoehorn in some debate about Trump.
Are you paid to act this stupid or were you just born that way?
Now that's some definite projection.
You troll slashdot like a paid shill trying to slam on things that you find a threat to you. You have no reasoning. You're just trained on fake social feedback from obsessing over this site.
You're totally and completely insane. Get a grip.
You are one of those incredibly mentally ill trolls that just has to piss over your territory aren't you?
You're losing, you're going to lose, and you are going to be kicked out after. No place in the world for belligerent stupid dinosaurs.
We have bots to do your jobs now. Byebye obsolete flesh bot, the real human beings are taking over now.
One thing is for sure: crypto is here to stay. The only question is which blockchains will fill which roles
Crypto may be inflated, it may not be. The economy is doing very well (see: all time market highs) and it's going to keep going better with tax reform that decreases the economic burden on the middle class and businesses, especially small businesses. This provides a very good opportunity to introduce crypto transactions to the general economy. If crypto finds footing in this growing economy, especially in small business, the market will not pop, it will blow up.
Anti-Bitcoin Sentiment on /. explained:
You have a bunch of "tech people" who had a major tech happening going on right under their noses and they missed out on it because they were afraid to try it, now they have to denigrate to feel better.
That's the thing about most "tech workers", they just do their job, they generally don't know anything at all about innovation or the ways of competition (the way of the world), but they like to give themselves credit for driving innovation and progress anyway.
So it stings them to see that they are proved wrong.
People are being brainwashed into stupid animals because the establishment is desperate to maintain itself but this time they control too much and we are all going to die if some one doesn't stop them before they collapse themselves
Have you ever read ANYTHING by Machiavelli?
it was reported
and how do you know that's true? Can you even repeat the evidence or rationale from the report?
ok and how does that effect you
why is that significant to anything
that's half of an open insult to be objective
so that is the best example you can come up with? he engaged in insult with some one else who insulted him? that's why he's making your life difficult?
Facebook is evil and everyone with a brain knows it.
Facebook was so invested in because its potential to break down society was realized by its big investors. It wasn't a shot in the dark with their billions of dollars. It wasn't a surprise that social media would transform our society. They knew what it was to become and it profits them immensely.
Why do they want to break down society? Because they want to increase the level of control they have. Instead of programming society on the scale of groups, they want to control every atom; every individual, and open up new roads to exponentially more power.
People always explain away things like this saying "well that's just what people want and the company is just giving them what they want and making money, so this isn't really bad, this is progress! There's no conspiracy! People are smart, they aren't so easily suckered into things! They know what's good!"
The thing is that people are actually not that picky. They will accept just about ANY given solution for their basic needs as long as authority backs it consistently enough. So it becomes a question of what exactly we are progressing towards and who's interest it really is in.
Humans are not some transcendent creature with the guarantee of self awareness and intellect and rationality because of how much inherently better they are than all other life on Earth. These are optional features supported by a certain way of life. If you take away the nuances from the human way of life, if you take away the culture that support these higher functions, people go into "backward compatibility mode"; they re-adapt to a simpler, savage, prehistoric world. Simply put they devolve.
While most people don't know themselves well enough to see this, there are people who know this about humanity, and they know about it deeply. These people are leaders.
Leaders either choose to try to raise people up to their own level of awareness or leaders choose to plunge people down so they can never rise up. Leaders choose either cooperation or enslavement.
Humans are tribal creatures. They are beyond racist. They are beyond nepotistic. They will kill members of their own families who displease them. Humans are not only genocidal by default, they a fratricidal by default.
We can see this at every point in our history. We can see this in our close relatives like the chimpanzee that continue to live a way of life that we departed from eons ago.
Leaders cooperate and enslave in degrees. The closer you are to directly supporting the substance of the leader, that is, the more you share in common with the leader that you align with that leader's will, the more cooperation you will receive. The further, the more enslavement you will receive, up to the point that when your interests drift sufficiently you are immediately killed or otherwise neutralized.
What this amounts to is simple: as time goes on you will only become more distant and unable to adapt to the leader. The leader's own will replace everyone else. Eventually you drift into the zone of no return in relation to a current leader and unless the leader changes, your line will end: you, your family, your children all die and there are no more children thereafter.
Usually this takes a long time, so long that the diverse interests in the world shift and leaders change and most tribes survive at least long enough to make a compromise and intermingle with the dominant tribe. But things are becoming unusual: power is being consolidated on unprecedented scales with unprecedented stability, and it is making ever more exacting demands on its subjects as their numbers swell to challenge the Earth's ability to sustain them.
Humanity's genocidal nature has risen to the surface.
This all sounds very grim, until you consider the fact we've been up and down this situation for millions of years and have some pretty good solutions to the pitfalls and the problems that lead to them.
All the machinery is in place for us to CHOOSE our own leaders. A
the current administration
What exactly have they done that another administration wouldn't have done?
Honestly, you people blame the specific administration for the flaws in the system. Your attention span is far too low and you are far too susceptible to media influence.
Instead of asserting your interests you blame and whine, enabling such administrations to come to power again because of all the people who get sick of your self-righteous, unjust, and unproductive whining and get especially sick of the people who take advantage of it to do worse.
The problem isn't Trump, it's a culture of failure, it's a glut of material - people give up on their responsibilities too easily because they prefer to be distracted.
Civic responsibility is of the utmost importance but most people draw the line at getting a job and barking and whining at the changes in the wind.
The bulk of our society is doomed. We simply have to start over with people who haven't been corrupted and let the rest rot in the world of their own choosing.
Cowardly
Moralizing your failures, the strategy of champions.
thats why i left the link
i have no -1 rated posts at all
You have no points. You are just seeking status in a place where it's impossible to get. You do not care about knowledge, you care about image.
Your mental illness is leading you to savagery. Turn back.
You are severely, severely mentally ill.
Everything you stand for is losing and you know it. Turn back now.
You don't have a right to arbitrary free shit.
Yes I do. I insist that I do and I will fight you or anyone else to the death who denies my right.
I have a right to be part of public discourse, I have a right to be int he same place as the majority and speak freely there. The livelihood, my future, and my freedom depend on this. So no matter what lesser or false law or rule would forbid me from doing so, I will do it anyway and if anyone tries to stop me I will fight back to the point of killing them or being killed myself if need be.
No, it's cooperation. Everything you see around you is the result of cooperation.
And how would we know what to cooperate about if an individual didn't propose a way to do things and assert it's superiority above all others?
Marxism is characterized by inventing a class of oppressors (evil nazi white supremacist hate bigots in this case) and pitting the most easily influenceable part of the population against them (poor people in almost every case).
The whole farce about capital always rotting in the hands of a few oligarchs unless the state steps in and micromanages everything is just a lie to give the controllers of the state the wealth and let it rot the same way they claim they will prevent it from rotting.
It turns out you do not even know what freedom is or what life is about and that you are the one who hates what is right.
There is precedent that could be used maybe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
From the article:
The town of Chickasaw, Alabama, was a company town near Mobile, Alabama, which was owned and operated by the Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation ("Gulf"). Aside from the fact that it was owned by a private entity, the town exhibited the general characteristics of a more traditional settlement. The town's policeman was a deputy from the Mobile County Sheriff's Department who was paid by Gulf. The town was surrounded by a number of adjacent neighborhoods which were not located on Gulf property. The Court noted that the residents of these non-Gulf neighborhoods were freely allowed to use the company-owned streets and sidewalks to access the town's businesses and facilities.
The appellant, Marsh, a Jehovah's Witness, stood near the post office one day, and began distributing religious literature. Marsh was warned that she needed a permit to do so.and that none would be issued to her. When she was asked to leave, she refused on the grounds that the company rule could not be constitutionally applied to her. The deputy sheriff arrested her and she was charged with the Alabama criminal code's trespassing equivalent.
During her trial, Marsh contended that the statute could not be constitutionally applied to her, as it would necessarily violate her rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. This contention was rejected and Marsh was convicted. The Alabama Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction, holding that the statute as applied was constitutional because the title to the sidewalk was in the corporation's name and the public use of the sidewalk had not been such as to give rise to a presumption under Alabama law of its irrevocable dedication to the public. The Alabama Supreme Court denied certiorari, and Marsh appealed her case directly to the United States Supreme Court.
In a 5-3 decision, the court ruled in favor of Marsh. The opinion, joined by three justices, was authored by Justice Hugo Black, with Justice Felix Frankfurter authoring a concurrence, and Justice Stanley Forman Reed authoring a dissent.
Yes. Those snowflakes and their children are going to be jockeyed into leadership positions in this society. They need to be intolerant in order to perpetrate the horrible violence they are supposed to actuate.
See: Communism in eastern europe. That is what is in store for us if we don't fight back against this (cultural) marxist insanity.
racists, crazies and trolls
You are probably not qualified to call anyone names, much less support the curtailment of their freedoms based on these judgements. You wave your hand and try to dehumanize others. You are missing the most important aspect of life: competition. You are claiming to be better but you refuse to compete. You are basically claiming to be a god on earth and above competition from the "mean things".
cried fowl
AVIAN BEAST! BIRD! BIRD!
In all seriousness twitter has never really been a place where any even slightly valuable dialogue takes place
Says you. Are the thoughts and actions of the hundreds of million people who use it invalid? Do they matter to nothing? Yet they are influenced by what they read on twitter. It's an important platform and it should by right be free for all to use.
The thing about marxist enforcement outlets is that they tend to be propped up regardless of profit. The hidden value is in how they are used to condition the population. They will be propped up as long as people keep going there. They will get endless investments for their contribution to the status quo, for their effort in rendering the human capital in this society to liquid.
Facebook is evil and everyone with a brain knows it.
Facebook was so invested in because its potential to break down society was realized by its big investors. It wasn't a shot in the dark with their billions of dollars. It wasn't a surprise that social media would transform our society. They knew what it was to become and it profits them immensely.
Why do they want to break down society? Because they want to increase the level of control they have. Instead of programming society on the scale of groups, they want to control every atom; every individual, and open up new roads to exponentially more power.
People always explain away things like this saying "well that's just what people want and the company is just giving them what they want and making money, so this isn't really bad, this is progress! There's no conspiracy! People are smart, they aren't so easily suckered into things! They know what's good!"
The thing is that people are actually not that picky. They will accept just about ANY given solution for their basic needs as long as authority backs it consistently enough. So it becomes a question of what exactly we are progressing towards and who's interest it really is in.
Humans are not some transcendent creature with the guarantee of self awareness and intellect and rationality because of how much inherently better they are than all other life on Earth. These are optional features supported by a certain way of life. If you take away the nuances from the human way of life, if you take away the culture that support these higher functions, people go into "backward compatibility mode"; they re-adapt to a simpler, savage, prehistoric world. Simply put they devolve.
While most people don't know themselves well enough to see this, there are people who know this about humanity, and they know about it deeply. These people are leaders.
Leaders either choose to try to raise people up to their own level of awareness or leaders choose to plunge people down so they can never rise up. Leaders choose either cooperation or enslavement.
Humans are tribal creatures. They are beyond racist. They are beyond nepotistic. They will kill members of their own families who displease them. Humans are not only genocidal by default, they a fratricidal by default.
We can see this at every point in our history. We can see this in our close relatives like the chimpanzee that continue to live a way of life that we departed from eons ago.
Leaders cooperate and enslave in degrees. The closer you are to directly supporting the substance of the leader, that is, the more you share in common with the leader that you align with that leader's will, the more cooperation you will receive. The further, the more enslavement you will receive, up to the point that when your interests drift sufficiently you are immediately killed or otherwise neutralized.
What this amounts to is simple: as time goes on you will only become more distant and unable to adapt to the leader. The leader's own will replace everyone else. Eventually you drift into the zone of no return in relation to a current leader and unless the leader changes, your line will end: you, your family, your children all die and there are no more children thereafter.
Usually this takes a long time, so long that the diverse interests in the world shift and leaders change and most tribes survive at least long enough to make a compromise and intermingle with the dominant tribe. But things are becoming unusual: power is being consolidated on unprecedented scales with unprecedented stability, and it is making ever more exacting demands on its subjects as their numbers swell to challenge the Earth's ability to sustain them.
Humanity's genocidal nature has risen to the surface.
This all sounds very grim, until you consider the fact we've been up and down this situation for millions of years and have some pretty good solutions to the pitfalls and the problems that lead to them.
All the machinery is in place for us to CHOOSE our own leaders. A
You really have points at all. You are strawmanning and making fluffy statements, that's all.
You have no concept of the selling point of Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies.
If we are going to be as reductive as you prefer to be, the point is to replace the global central banking system and free people from debt slavery.
*It doesn't matter if Bitcoin is bad for daily transactions. It can still hold value. It is finding a role as a reserve currency that is sold to obtain other currencies that are better used for instantaneous transactions.
*This is a new system in the process of being hammered out. Volatility is a precursor to stability. The fact that it is volatile cannot be used to predict its future.
*Bitcoin is being used to trade for more instantaneously usable currencies
*Again
*Cash money and transportable assets are the favored targets of thieves. So what?
*Governments have absolutely no way to stop this. What are you talking about? If there are restrictive regulations people will just do it anyway.
Basically you just seem to be terrified of anything changing and are trying to justify your irrationality. You are anything but "Insightful".
It should be applied to everyone in the government.
It might force them to make a rational argument instead of appealing to their own authority.
Your point of view is reflexively contrarian and totally invalid.
You have completely failed to consider what the purpose of art is.
You have completely failed to consider the effect of technical labor on the overall direction of the art which is made by it.
To keep this short, basically there gets to be a point where the tools do too much work and people become trained on superficial aspects of art and it becomes trivial to distract any given person in a state of mindlessness by generating some slightly new variation of superficial aspects from an old work.
We are already deep, deep in this phenomenon and our society is crumbling as a result. Public discourse is utterly failing. Most people have lost their grip on reality and live in an echo chamber.
And you think accelerating this process by validating their mental illness by tailoring entertaining experiences to their twisted whims will be a good thing?