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    1. BrendanEich‏Verified account @BrendanEich 27 Mar 2018
      Replying to @fixer3999 @Padre35 and

      McLuhan predicted a lot over 50 years ago. But why did we give up on control of our data and devices? Was it just the lure of ease-of-use and your-friends-all-joined, like Lemmings find the path to the cliff easy to use and everyone's doing it? It was the lure of a free lunch.

      9 replies 5 retweets 22 likes
    2. Dan Mosedale‏ @dmose 3 Apr 2018
      Replying to @BrendanEich @Padre35 and

      Wealth inequality creates a large group who can't afford to spend money on non-essentials, which pulls them to spend the currency that everyone has some of?

      1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
    3. BrendanEich‏Verified account @BrendanEich 3 Apr 2018
      Replying to @dmose @Padre35 and

      Coercing something for nothing entails usurious contracts, implicit or explicit. Striking in “Molly’s Game” (explicit use of u-word by Molly Bloom) & now “Ready Player One” (debtors => the Loyalty Center). Inequality part of life, OOC in late capitalism == state-sponsored usury.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Ben Gimpert‏ @someben 3 Apr 2018
      Replying to @BrendanEich @dmose and

      paying a third party to allow you to time-shift income is not usury.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    5. BrendanEich‏Verified account @BrendanEich 3 Apr 2018
      Replying to @someben @dmose and

      Are you referring to RP1?

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    6. Ben Gimpert‏ @someben 3 Apr 2018
      Replying to @BrendanEich @dmose and

      not specifically. Paying someone for a service is not necessarily coercion, or something from nothing. In the case of debt, the service is time-shifting income and (therefore) risk transfer. Not necessarily usurious.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    7. BrendanEich‏Verified account @BrendanEich 3 Apr 2018
      Replying to @someben @dmose and

      You left out the crucial question of compound interest.

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    8. BrendanEich‏Verified account @BrendanEich 3 Apr 2018
      Replying to @BrendanEich @someben and

      Of course we agree, exchange is not usury -- nowhere said by anyone upthread :-|. From "Molly's Game": First of all, he'll never climb out of that, that's sharecropper math. It's also usury, it's racketeering. Second, you can't stake a player and play in a game at the same time.

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Apr 2018
      Replying to @BrendanEich @someben and

      "you can't stake a player and play in a game at the same time." why not?

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    10. BrendanEich‏Verified account @BrendanEich 3 Apr 2018
      Replying to @MorlockP @someben and

      Because your staked player could be colluding with you.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 3 Apr 2018
      Replying to @BrendanEich @someben and

      I guess the analogy would need to be defined more before I could conclude that that is a good or bad thing.

      11:10 AM - 3 Apr 2018
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