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Douglas @Rushkoff speculates about a process where the wealthy sandbox themselves, employing Trained #MOLE workers, and pay them in crypto datacentre vouchers that can be redeemed for compute, memory, storage, and so on. The end of capitalism as the Rapture of the Nerds;
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/342-the-joy-of-being-worthless-except-to-each-other
Intriguing, but it reminds me of the IR realist friend who asked me "how many armoured divisions does BitCoin have?".
"Think of it this way. We built the net as a safe refuge for the counterculture. Corporations invaded the net, they took it over, and turned it into an accelerationist nightmare.
But they're ignoring the real world in the process. They believe they're leaving it behind, for something abstract and better, and as far as I'm concerned, let them take the net. As long as we can take back the real world.
They get the net, and we'll have each other."
#DouglasRushkoff, 2025
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/342-the-joy-of-being-worthless-except-to-each-other
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