Crypto, and the whole subculture that's popped up around it.
It reminds me of another criticism I have of capitalism - it's supposed to reward productivity, creating value, improving things, making the world a better place. But it doesn't always reward these things. In fact, under capitalism, sometimes you can make more money by not making things better. I may not be fully understanding crypto, as I admittedly don't know that much about it. But I don't see what crypto is doing to make the world better. In fact, I hear it actually makes the world worse, because mining these coins uses a lot of electricity, which causes a lot of pollution. At least that's what I read anyway.
I mean what even is crypto? It seems like buying and selling nothing, and then psychologically manipulating people into thinking this "nothing", is actually worth something. It's annoying how these people act like they're "working hard" and are "entrepreneurs", when it seems like they don't actually do anything that does any good for the world.
I feel like speculation of any kind, is bullshit. It's not actually being productive, creating value, providing a good or service, or doing anything to improve the world. It's just trying to make money by trying to manipulate the price of things to increase. It's just trying to get something for nothing, it's trying to game the system. In fact, it kind of reminds me of how guys spit "game" to women, and these guys aren't actually good at anything, interesting people, or good people - they just know how to say the right words, in the right way, and look and act the right way, to hit a woman's attraction buttons (and I know it's not all of them, but at least some). It's all psychological manipulation either way, for these people to get what they want and hide their lack of real substance.
Again I admit that I don't know everything about this, and that I could be wrong, I could be misunderstanding something. But this is the impression I get.
