"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.”
Public transit is generally faster than driving around in big cities, especially places like NYC and Boston (at least when the T is actually operating as-intended).
Hell I live 45 miles away from my office and most days it is faster to do train-->subway-->half mile walk.
To these types of people, especially...time is money. You would think they would prefer public transit just for the time efficiency...or at least invest in it just to reduce the amount of traffic they have to deal with on the roads.
You don't even see Musk riding around on a goddamn Segway. Which actually turns out to be a somewhat common Mandela effect, because I had to look it up to find out he didn't actually invent/start Segway.
Saddens me that crypto is now about investment/gains instead of being improved as a fair, decentralised, convenient, fast, secure money system.
Looks like we will have to stick to the banks and their bullshit yet after all.
When was it not?
People only complained they didn't get in before 2016 so they could be rich.
There were more honest attempts to spread it and use it in physical/online stores back when BTC was under 1000 than now, and it's not like we got higher exchange rate fluctuations. If anything, it becomes more stable.
I loved the idea of crypto. There was even a niche but growing Crypto Leftist movement, creating tech/apps to help the working class (Breadchain), but in 4 years they built basically nothing. Then just fucking everything else got captured by VC money, big tech, and institutions. It's just capitalism 2.0 now. It's such a shame.
I remember the moment it clicked for me that this was the case. In early 2018 I overheard my roommate listening to a Bitcoin podcast hosted by people I understood to be prominent members of the community. They were trying to justify why it was a good thing Steam no longer accepted Bitcoin to purchase games. I couldn’t see a single upside to a currency, whose purpose is to be exchanged for goods and services, no longer being accepted for a good. I thought about the large amount of crypto the podcasters likely held and how they were probably trying to keep other people in to keep their own crypto worth more. But if the people near the helm were no longer able to admit when something is wrong, then the dream was dead, crypto was dead to me, and I stopped getting more.
Well duh, you think they're going to use their phone while driving? They're a Bitcoin trader, not a maniac!
"How would you like to go to work in a chauffeur driven $400,000 vehicle?"
On the right one, you can play scrabble on your phone while you wait to get to your destination.
The fact that the left side is supposed to be desirable.
Using slop to make fun of crypto certainly is a weird choice. They're very much adjacent.
And that’s why I never got into crypto.
forced to drive to work vs leisurely taking the bus to go on an adventure
For every person that gets a payday from crypto there’s probably 50,000 that lost money. It’s just gambling.
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