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by gmd63 1292 days ago
There really should be a law against this. It's jarring to the economy to confuse people with artificial prices when your sole goal is to snap a customer base into some long term reliability on a platform or product that isn't necessarily any different after the subsidy runs dry and it needs to become self-sustainable.
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Why should there be a law? People benefited with cheaper taxis and VCs lost their money
when you skew the incentives in the economy such that people focus on developing skills that are based on artificially juiced things that aren't actually that valuable (see Axie Infinity) it's bad for folks' livelihoods long term
VCs lost other people’s money. I think that bill has yet to come due.