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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
all money is virtual these days and we have the same shitty power structures of before, if not worse.
back in the day before all-digital money there was a hefty cash economy that occurred outside of state surveillance.
now square is asking to send me their new card reader so i can take trackable, taxable payments, of which they get a free every time.
bitcoin maybe offers some alternatives right now, but as soon as it becomes a real threat the lawyers will find a way to preserve the power of their bosses and then some.
and the mafiosos are always also politicians.
just like the free internet that was going to save us all is about to become the next cable tv full of "sponsored content" and everything else throttled to death.
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you're also confirming my suspicion that post modern cynicism is not world weary wisdom based on any kind of realism at all, but conservatism that wants to preserve magical thinking and shut down any possibility of change whatsoever by always positing that it's not worth knowing about.
i'd rather face the inevitable movement of progress and make whatever moves are available, the fact that i can't magically defeat possibilities of misuse and like, reality, makes me more realistic than anyone who can't think/keep up with change because they're secretly preserving a ridiculous optimism through disavowing it in cynicism.
i mean, of COURSE lawyers and power structures will seek to capitalise on this stuff as much as they possibly can.