• overflow@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Yeah, like Graeber. “Debt: First 5000 Years” is very much on-topic here. He goes deep into how pre-market societies worked and how capitalism came to be (and tears apart the founding myths of economy in the process). Fascinating read.

    Yay another book written by some guy that complains about modern society makes broad generalizations about human nature and money, idealizes pre-industrial societies and complains about capitalism without offering any real alternative but basically just saying we can do better just what the world needed.

    Problem is, cryptocurrencies are intrinsically capitalist. They support and perpetuate capitalist power structures. Consider this:

    there are not intrinisically capitalist because they use subsidies and other things non existent in a perfectly free market nor is it surprising the wealth distribution of crypto is uneven since most people don’t use them as a replacement to fiat/even know of them at all never mind the fact that you can freely purchase them from a exchange and nothing stops one from doing so

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      3 years ago

      Yay another book written by some guy…

      I vaguely remember how in some other thread someone insisted I read a whitepaper before I comment on a thing. You know them perhaps? 🤣

      there are not intrinisically capitalist because they use subsidies and other things non existent in a perfectly free market

      You might want to read up a bit about the difference between the terms “capitalism” and “free market”.

      Anyway, that was fun. Let’s do it again some time.

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        3 years ago

        I vaguely remember how in some other thread someone insisted I read a whitepaper before I comment on a thing. You know them perhaps? 🤣

        Yes and you never did that so why should I act in good faith and do the same for you

        You might want to read up a bit about the difference between the terms “capitalism” and “free market”.

        My mistake I should’ve said a capitalist market economy