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Originally Posted by Paul T
I agree...just watched a few more mins of that vid and very sales-y. Reminds me of an old Amway sales video. Lots of hype, lots of FOMO baked in....I guess that's the exit strategy for the original holders. I believe when it comes crashing down, it'll be ugly, but as these things go, that could be years from now.
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yup, once you buy in, you are more incentivized than ever to push it on all your friends, the internet, etc etc.
now its one thing to be dishonest and do this to your friends and the internet, its totally another one to actually be dishonest to yourself, and actually believe some of this ****.
but yeah, it works just like an MLM. and it hits the exact kind of people who would get involved in an MLM, and for the same psychological and sociological reasons. like, and there are ways to make money in MLMs, in a smarmy, theft, type way. if your cool with that, i guess, knock yourself out. im not. and of course folks like DJT love it, its got all the same tags they love, its disruptive, its anti-intellectual, its "sticking it to the man," its stealing from your own fans, etc etc
of course they love the idea of using taxpayer dollars to boost the price even more. like, this is the perfect use of government money to them. they get to make money on both sides of that transaction! they get to use the government to steal your money directly!
i remember when bitcoin started making headlines as an investment my first response was "why would anyone legit want cyber money used on the darkweb for buying drugs, child porn, and hitmen?" and when i talked to some of the first bitcoin evangelists, they had no idea where it came from, why, how it worked etc. again, all stuff i knew from my darkweb days on the hidden wiki, .onion stuff, etc. it was clear to me that none of these folks actually understood or believed any of this stuff, just that it was a thing, that was going up in value.
ie if you dont understand .onion, what the hell are you doing trying to sell me bitcoin? lol. honestly some of that darkweb stuff is far more economically valuable than bitcoin or block-chain tech ever could be. esp in the days of increasing government surveillance.