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The most obvious stupid scam ever conceived and they actually managed to hook a bunch of actual corporations

Square Enix, Nickelodeon, Coke, KFC, and more fell for this shit while regular people were laughing about how obvious a con it was.

Really puts into question the capitalist myth of the genius entrepreneur and the idea that these corporate types are rich because they are smart or deserving in some way.

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Heads up, we have a genuine cryptopeddler (don't say it's about crypto, because the goalposts keep moving even as the peddler argues for NFTs and related grifts) in this thread, and the entire carnival barker routine is now in play, including "beat capitalism's casino by doing a newer shinier capitalism casino" and messianic "this will change the world and revolutionize everything" speeches.

soypoint-1 cryptocurrency dumpster-fire soypoint-2

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Lmao it's all good, capitalism is gonna capital

[–] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am nothing if not a tankie redfash dictator tyrant

stalin-pipe

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Don't forget your spoon of office stalin-comical-spoon

[–] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Omg new emoji when did this drop?

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your service. fidel-salute

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Only minutes ago I got a hate-reply here from a totally neutral poster saying that that crypto peddler wasn't a crypto peddler and tried to shame me for dunking on the crypto-peddler. doubt

[–] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

@ username, sus radar activated

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I genuinely hate how dense you are. Capitalism deserves to rot for breeding people like you. Oh well, enjoy your fair markets.

I'm not even peddling NFTs (as pictures) like you keep pushing. It's a type of tech (similar to crypto sure), that would provide verification of digital assets. You do not have that in your current free market in the states or in any capitalistic society.

Things absolutely won't change if we keep having dumb fucks like you take the opinions of billionaires over working people.

Reddit was fucking spammed with NFT "content" in order to slander it. Big, very rich, motherfuckers don't want you to be pro-tokenized-securities and if they have to make NFTs a "grift" to do it then they obviously will.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I genuinely hate how dense you are

Because I'm calling out the cynical grift you're pulling.

You're claiming that the answer to capitalism is more capitalism, this time from a shiny newer casino that is already majority owned and operated and pushed by ruling class capitalists and that will somehow topple capitalism and bring about an unspecified utopia that you've been vague about so far but have used techbro language to try to dazzle people with your bullshit.

[–] Junomint@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“ You're claiming that the answer to capitalism is more capitalism” I read this in the Christopher walken more cow bell tone and I just thought I should share. I got a fever and the only prescription is more capitalism

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Same energy as just one more highway lane bro this time it will work bro

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's just not fucking true.

Global company ownership (not peddled by some government or fiat currency) would be the #1 way to increase class consciousness.

You would genuinely own a portion of a company instead of an IOU. Stakeholders would obviously be paid in "stock" and not a currency subject to USA dumbshits

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You would genuinely own a portion of a company instead of an IOU.

YOUR CASINO TOKENS ARE YOURS TO INVEST. BEAT THE CASINO BY GAMBLING WHAT LITTLE YOU HAVE LEFT! morshupls

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

also you can invest in companies and genuinly own a portion of them on the regular financial system that's what capitalism is

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, and some people do profit from that. That's the whole point. The problem being that the poor can't afford to lose that gamble and they lack the connections or insider information to make better informed bets.

But the crypto peddler said this new casino is different and better because the internet and the future and jargon words and revolutionize the world morshupls

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem being that the poor can't afford to lose that gamble and they lack the connections or insider information to make better informed bets

well that makes no sense if it's the same amount of money being bet

[–] The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm confused. The rich and poor can bet 50k on a company? Surely you see the difference between losing 50k making 50k a year and losing 50k as a multimillionaire.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes but if you can't afford to loose 50K on the stock market you can't afford to loose 50K on crypto

crypto currency does nothing to deal with the issue of whether or not you can afford to gamble money on it

[–] The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People have bills man

1,000,000- 50,000= 950,000

50k-50k= 0

Who can afford food after that?

Affording something is just about having the cash on hand to buy it. If you can't deal with the consequences of the loss you're not really affording it no?

Even with less extreme numbers the point still stands. You're misrepresenting and or misunderstanding UlyssesT.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No that's simply not my point the actual sum we're talking about isn't the important point.

The point is that if you cannot afford to loose $x on the stock market then you cannot afford to loose $x on crypto because they are both gambling and so that legitimate criticism of the stock market is not an advantage of crypto

I have been saying afford to loose rather than afford to spend this whole time

[–] The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No one is saying it's an advantage of crypto???

Where are you getting that? Who said it was?

"But the crypto peddler said this new casino is different and better because the internet and the future and jargon words and revolutionize the world "

This means it's the same old shit with a fresh coat of paint not that look at how evil crypto is compared to the stock market. No one has claimed or likely is going to claim on Hexbear that the stock market or crypto is a fair, reliable, and balanced way to make money.(for us poors anyway) I don't know why you're showing up being pedantic but also completely wrong about your pedantry. No one is making that point.

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

no it fucking isn't
you are high n your own farts lmao

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit was fucking spammed with NFT "content" in order to slander it

It was garbage all along. It didn't need slandering.

And your clown circus isn't really improving its image.

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The internet was also garbage when it started...

Capitalists destroyed the image and now you're taking that at face value

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're actually seriously pulling the "internet was new once" card.

That's fucking cringe, even among cryptocurrency communities at this point.

Capitalists destroyed the image

Capitalists so intentionally destroyed the image of a rent-seeking scheme. They didn't just fuck up by being credulous and gullible by believing people like you and buying in. susie-laugh

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're actually seriously pulling the "internet was new once" card

so was the south sea bubble

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My favorite retort to that one is "They laughed at the Wright brothers, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown".

Or for this example, yeah, the internet was new at one point. The Juicero was also new at one point.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Or for this example, yeah, the internet was new at one point. The Juicero was also new at one point.

That's perfect. I can also say that Theranos was new once.