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The left is endlessly infuriating
Critique is cheap
Commitment is expensive
Critique is cheap
Commitment is expensive
there is one space currently discussing user ownership of platforms and protocols, fair compensation for digital labor, reintroducing payment for intellectual work, plug and play legally certified coops, literal data unions, democratic protocol governance, and it's not here.
And opportunities to build better and more equitable systems also won’t be gift wrapped with a bow with “officially approved for safe leftist enthusiasm” on it
What is apparently now officially approved for safe leftist enthusiasm are endless critical discussions on issues of the day of which the left has very little real world influence on centralized rentier platforms with horrifying labor conditions, but crypto? Too many cooties
Is vanguard leftist thought really to be demoted to circular flame wars between incurious and snarkily dismissive Brooklyn grad students who know little more about the world and its operations than 100 year arguments between academic leftists?
there's a new database and set of primitives that unlock a bunch of new potential economic arrangements, but some people I don't like also use it, so it must be avoided. Not like the old database, that I guess some people I don't like also use
