"oh it shows abuse, it shows sexual violence, it shows this, it shows that" you are simply not qualified to even begin to participate in an adult conversation about this. be quiet and drink your chocolate milk

I saw a quote from the Klarna guy recently saying that people taking out loans to pay for groceries doesn’t signal an economic crisis, but is rather a positive sign that people are more interested in “liquidity management,” which is what credit cards allow. And what harm have those done ever!

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“The financialization of everything.” is verbatim a condemnatory line from @foldablehuman.bsky.social’s scathing takedown of crypto and its supporters. I feel so bad for Dan that we have to witness it as the next looming (nay, already here) malevolent trend.

I swear to mcfuck

These people have truly forgotten that legislation and social compact (though truly and utterly fucking flawed do not get me wrong) WAS the more fair agreement between them and All Of The Rest Of Us because the other option of rebalance and recompense tended to be more painful and permanent.

In any just world the mere idea should earn you a lightning-bolt-cracked skull and a swift sprint out of town.

But nah, we live in a world where they’ll just invent a newer, smarter, more algorithmic bottom of the barrel and sell it to us (as a subscription, natch).

I do not know what kind of soul-depraved, money-huffing brainworms you have to be on to think “let people bet on everyday events to make the precarities we foisted upon them feel Worth It” is not an absolute bottom of the barrel premise.

They’re ghouls. Egoists, carrion feeders, and the rare zealot (for whatever flavor of accelerationism gets them off). All of them.

They’re desperate, they’re deluded, they’re not as powerful or omnipresent as they think they are.