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by mudrockbestgirl 1373 days ago
The biggest gap between people involved with the Ethereum ecosystem vs. mainstream media seems to be that the former are focused on the economic impact of The Merge, while the latter is focused on the environmental impact. Don't get me wrong, reducing energy costs is great and everyone agrees with that, but the resulting changes in monetary policy are probably even more impactful. But of course this is not sensationalist or simple enough for the media to focus on.

The charts on this website are great, but people outside of the ecosystem likely won't understand them, which is a real problem if Ethereum wants adoption.

2 comments

False dichotomy.

What nobody pays attention to is that the entire thing is a cartel and only incentivizes restricting freedom over time and automating turmoil.

It’s a complete disgrace to what cyberspace represents. It’s an opportunistic, exploitative, incompatible, deprecated, deficient paradigm stuck in a physically-constrained view of the future perpetually hindering progress due to preventing the mind in being able to contemplate non-physical things as infinite.

Pathetic, sad, crappy, leaky.

All driven by greed and ignorance.

People are being played to act as pawns for the same “elite controllers” that they complain about; being led to perpetuate playing the same game. The only thing worse than actual scarcity is completely artificial scarcity and erecting simulacra around that notion as if it were real. Way to go building an actual matrix of ignorance and slavery.

bitter about something?
Some things warrant bitterness
That's a personally philosophical stance rather than an objective truth. Like anarchism vs communism vs capitalism.
Everyone has a mutual interest in not destroying the world we live on. A fraction of a percent of the population cares about Etherum's impact on the way they already conduct business.
> Everyone has a mutual interest in not destroying the world we live on

I don't know in which world you live in, but from where I'm sitting, it sure as hell doesn't look like this.

Not everyone is equally motivated, that's for damn sure.