I really like this question and the challenge of answering it. I believe what makes NFTs different is a transformative vision of a future that true believers find inspiring and achievable. In their eyes, the current speculative bubble is a mechanism for growing something enduringhttps://twitter.com/AriDrennen/status/1450652779198910465 …
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I think recognizing the spiritual hunger that sits at the core of these movements (and remember how many in the space are young people!) is an important step to understanding them. Crypto culture is a mirror world that feeds off of the unexamined failures of the real world.
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And it is also, like everyone points out, a massive scam that will hurt regular people the longer the bubble is allowed to inflate. But it's not just "name a star", it's "name a star" with the promise that you'll get to visit in a rocket very soon, if only enough people believe.
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And I deserve a goddamned medal for 12 tweets on this without a single mention of Communism.
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@nyquildotorg makes a good point, that NFT culture in particular is also Herbalife for young artists, promising them self-reliance and the ability to live off their work if they buy in, assuring them that every garage band can be U2 on the blockchain.https://twitter.com/nyquildotorg/status/1450889518291173376 …Show this thread
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Different people but same society splitting mentality. Crypto tech fixes some "bugs" in high finance but in the hands of people with the same mentality the crypto will just be abused in other ways to create the same outcome.
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