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by khqc 193 days ago
Is it really a waste if you made enough money to retire?
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Right, OP writes up crypto as being this terrible disease with no meaning. But outside of crypto there aren't many jobs that have real meaning either. I worked for the UN at one point, and that was actually one of the worse.

At the end of the day you are always just working to make someone else rich or to give them the promotion they want. If you get rich yourself along the way, take that as a win.

I respectfully disagree. Even if you told me that you felt like working at the UN was a waste of time, I’d still tell you that at least you contributed to a historically unique global institution which at least strives to bring people across the world together.

Bitcoin was just a waste of talent and resources.

Half the people here work for random SaaS and socially corrosive companies like Meta that have literally helped install dictators into power

You could do worse than building crappy blockchains

Not a lot of people here work for Meta, which is why you had to lump in "Random SaaS" like that's remotely comparable. I doubt most people here are working on anything harmful, let alone a fraction of what Meta does.

Unless you think Todo list apps cause Ethnic Cleansing.

> Bitcoin was just a waste of talent and resources.

What happens when a country's banking system fails.

> What happens when a country's banking system fails.

The people who looted it transport their ill-gotten gains away via Bitcoin, often enough.

What should the average citizen of that country do in that case?
Cooperate with their fellow citizens and fix their banking system, rather than trying to grab as much as possible for themselves?
Make your own startup. I also hate working for people whom I consider less smart and/or capable or experienced than I am.