#Little misfortune memes movie
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Satoshi Nakamoto may not have had the answer to how we save civilization, but they did provide one valuable tool: Bitcoin. We do need a revolution, but let us not use that word lightly.

#Little misfortune memes series

Civilization might just slowly, and then suddenly, fall victim to an unending series of resource wars on a dying planet that yields less with each passing day. We are quickly devolving and we havenвЂ™t even reached the cool part where energy-thirsty robots enslave us. Ironically, this is leading to actual scarcity due to the exploitation and degradation of the life-support systems of this planet. Instead, we ended up with a post-scarcity society, that enforces artificial scarcity to prevent the possibilities of what post-scarcity could realize. If it was, Marx would have been correct that capitalism was a step towards a communist society: it would create the material surplus needed as a precondition for the organization of a post-scarcity society. The process of revolution is not deterministic. This is the reality we must recon withвЂ¦ Did you really think a mere technical innovation in read-only databases would put into effect a revolution that would undermine the entrenched powers of the nation-state, banks, and transnational capital? Of course not, because revolution takes work and technology is neutral. Like cyborg vultures feasting on anything and everything as long as there is profit to be made, which there always is.

Human civilization could collapse under the stress of geopolitical conflicts fueled by global warming and there might still be a small group of elite humans organized within corporations that have supplemented all labor with AI robots living in underground bunkers, ready to capitalize on the misfortune.

#Little misfortune memes movie

Words of revolution, like вЂњundermining the stateвЂќ and вЂњdemocratizing the economy,вЂќ have become as watered down as corporate-sponsored politiciansвЂ™ words of вЂњfighting for the working class.вЂќ This is what happens when the tools of revolution are delivered to a system that has absorbed every attack and contradiction into itself only to come out stronger in the end.Д¬apitalism is resilient, its glue, itвЂ™s the monster in the action-comic movie that grows stronger as more missiles are launched at it. Some early adopters encouraged institutional adoption, stating that it was a necessary step toward a greater transition, but then they got rich too. A few cypherpunks got rich as the traditional elite bought-in and co-opted the movementвЂ™s trajectory. Where has the crypto revolution gone the one proposed by the cypherpunks who manifested the blockchain and cryptographic coins into existence? Well, it has been co-opted, like every other revolution that has fought the state and capital.Д¬ryptoвЂ™s utility has been absorbed into existing institutions of capital and the nation-state and its aesthetic has been tainted by virtual landgrabs in the metaverse, NFT scams, and pump-and-dump ICOs. Photo by Daniele Levis Pelusi on Unsplash Nakamoto, We Have a Problem