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RE: Be A Douchebag, Not A Follower
Yeah, this is an important point. I've recently decided to stop giving gifts and cards on holidays to take a stand against disingenuous obligatory cultural behavior. If I want to give you a gift, I'll give it to you on any random Tuesday. If I never give you gift again, you shouldn't even notice. I don't. On some level people understand what I'm saying about this, but on a more compelling level, they are tethered to their programming and feel that it's a slight. You're welcome for showing you your chains.
"You break the mirror that reminds you of your ugliness." - The GZA
one of these days .. when we are a cashless society , and all transactions are digital ( and probably cryptocurrency) - and with the propensity of people to give out gift cards instead of actual gifts... the time will come when the disingenuous obligatory gift giving is distilled down to something like this: The earth has rotated around the sun again, so you owe me some credits. Just transfer them directly to my account.
Hahaha exactly! Nothing says "love" like a bank notification on you phone saying, "You've received 100 credits from catmom46".
"Cashless" as in no physical money? Because in reality, digital currency won't do anything serious to our culture, in terms of social conduct that is.
(Obviously it will redefine our perception of what "money" is, but fundamentally we will still behave the same way)
Crypto is going to have to bear the load of freedom, as it will be the only way to have private transactions. Not an encouraging idea, to my mind, since nothing beats two guys handing each other something, as far as privacy is concerned. Maybe gold and silver will make a return for such things. I’m leary of crypto’s ability to stay shielded from governmental pirates and other hazards, like a total tech shutdown or something (admittedly, a dubious prospect).
The one thing people don't want to admit about crypto, is that although it is decentralized on paper, in reality, it has been one of the most easily manipulated spaces to invest in.
One tweet from some idiot and you have null coins pumping x100. So, if we really want to indulge in catastrophology, if the government decides "fuck it! let me get some of dis", then they could easily use propaganda to manipulate the shit out of everyone.
Crypto, blockchain technology, dag etc are just medium to decentralization and not the decentralization itself. To achieve the latter, there must be a shift in our mindset, which fortunately I think it's happening (with the help of the aformentioned things).
Excellent point. And I agree, mindset and morality are the only solutions that actually solve.
Crypto is going to have to bear the load of freedom, as it will be the only way to have private transactions. Not an encouraging idea, to my mind, since nothing beats two guys handing each other something, as far as privacy is concerned. Maybe gold and silver will make a return for such things. I’m leary of crypto’s ability to stay shielded from governmental pirates and other hazards, like a total tech shutdown or something (admittedly, a dubious prospect).
that's kinda my point - that when there is no physical cash to give to someone - we will continue passing off gift cards as gifts and eventually it will just be credits to your account - now at christmas time everyone is just transferring credits and receiving credits and hoping that at the end of they day they are still ahead....
Sending cards isn't even a thing in most cultures. That's a prime example of arbitrarily constructing social rules.