> The Web3 crowd are ideologically devoted to building a digital world focused on the removal of greed, power, supervision and censorship. It’s giving digital natives a new identity, purpose and belonging - much like the Aghoris.
I gotta stop you right there. This ideology has existed long before Web3 was coined as a term, and much, much longer than it has existed as a concept. Ever since Limewire, Bittorrent and general P2P systems were in use, people were (and are) circumventing that power. The difference is that they're not marketing themselves anywhere; they're not trying to flip a quick buck or turn themselves into The Next Big Thing. Their suitability is entirely predicated on the fact that they don't care about those things, which is directly opposed to the general treatment of Web3 today. Everything is being tokenized, deconstructed and turned into digital stake-claiming. We're all trying to be The Next Big Thing, grasping at straws that don't exist and driving our infatuation with petty vanity to a point where the sheer consensus of who owns a JPEG is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
That's not what it means to be digitally native. That's what it means to be socially native in a digital world. Unfortunately for those people, their concepts and ideologies will long outlive the blockchains they're inscribed on, in the form of truly decentralized, peer-operated networks that don't rely on consensus-based ledgers or building a multi-billion-dollar Web3 SAAS. Articles like this strike me as so silly that I can't even take them seriously on premise alone.
Think you are saying the same thing. The ideology has existed long before even your references though. It was never encoded in their objectives, and their utility was obvious from day 1. Not sure the identity component ever did, which is what makes someone digitally native
I gotta stop you right there. This ideology has existed long before Web3 was coined as a term, and much, much longer than it has existed as a concept. Ever since Limewire, Bittorrent and general P2P systems were in use, people were (and are) circumventing that power. The difference is that they're not marketing themselves anywhere; they're not trying to flip a quick buck or turn themselves into The Next Big Thing. Their suitability is entirely predicated on the fact that they don't care about those things, which is directly opposed to the general treatment of Web3 today. Everything is being tokenized, deconstructed and turned into digital stake-claiming. We're all trying to be The Next Big Thing, grasping at straws that don't exist and driving our infatuation with petty vanity to a point where the sheer consensus of who owns a JPEG is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
That's not what it means to be digitally native. That's what it means to be socially native in a digital world. Unfortunately for those people, their concepts and ideologies will long outlive the blockchains they're inscribed on, in the form of truly decentralized, peer-operated networks that don't rely on consensus-based ledgers or building a multi-billion-dollar Web3 SAAS. Articles like this strike me as so silly that I can't even take them seriously on premise alone.