There's a deep, weird undercurrent of entitlement in much of the criticism of state leaders, blockchain etc. - an unwillingness to show commitment to anything else.
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I understand lay people disgusted by corruption and corporate overreach that goes unperturbed, but much of this stuff comes from *competitors*.
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"We can't succeed with voters because we A) suck at politics, B) can't work press, C) don't give a shit about you, D) don't have a program, but fuck you for voting Trump/Brexit/whatever."
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"We recvidist, luddite news outlets are getting outcompeted by Facebook and Google - protect us from the techboys!"
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Look, if I don't want Google to know all the details of my personal life or politicians to appropriate my taxes to pay off corporate donors, those are my civil rights - and the same for anyone else.
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If you can't stay relevant enough with your state-subsidized/corporate-owned shit-shovelling news outlet or plutocrat political "party", tough fucking shit.
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An extraordinary amount of the noise around politics and money boils down to "I wanted the free money, why does this asshole get it and not me?"
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Any private citizen has more buy-in (and certainly more skin in the game), and thus more right to complain, than that.
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Likewise, while I have a tremendous amount of respect for people who do start-ups - knowing how back-breaking the work can be - let's not be under any illusions: most of you are in it to make money.
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So if your get-rich-quick scheme fails and there isn't a deep, underlying commitment to fixing real world problems of significance, I struggle to see why anyone should give a fuck.
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There are extraordinary pressures working against those trying to fix the real problems, because those problems are embedded in systems and somebody milks power or profit from those systems.
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But if that's not actually the wall you're up against, maybe whining is a bit uncalled for.