I'm just gonna say it.
I think the "FacebookCoin" is an attempt by big tech, banks and credit card companies to lure people away from #Bitcoin into their "better, easier, crypto", which is nothing more than a fiat coin being masqueraded as crypto.
Millions will be fooled.
When intelligent people affiliate themselves to ideology, their intellect ceases to guard against wishful thinking, and instead begins to fortify it, causing them to inadvertently mastermind their own delusion, and to very cleverly become stupid.
One way to measure the speed of technological progress is by how befuddled old people are by what has become normal.
Looking at it this way, I think we are moving fast.
You can’t remember the past unless you first witness it. So I’d recommend watching Peter Jackson’s ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’, which uses cutting edge tech to bring to life previously unseen footage of WW1, offering intimate glimpses of life 100 years ago.
Quillette's rise has been astounding. It presents exactly the kind of challenge mainstream publications need, and we all benefit from the products of that competition. https://t.co/2imnFqrhNu
Many on the right claim the Nazis were socialists, and many on the left (like the "history writer" here) claim they weren’t. Both are wrong. The Nazis had both socialist (Strasserite) & non-socialist (Hitlerite) factions. Genocidal hatred belongs to no school of economics.
The dark secrets of money:
- Inflation creates inequality
- Debt controls the people
- Taxation benefits elites
- Dollars are backed by nothing
Do your own research. Proceed with caution.