the goal of a communist economy, imo, should be to replicate the ideals of the open source movement as closely as possible, material conditions permitting

to wit: labor is valued in a democratic but decentralized fashion, and noncontributors still benefit equally

It occurs to me that people rushing into nfts are willingly replicating all the worst features of Cyberpunk style internet. It should be obvious to anybody who's paying attention that Amazon has only been playing at market hegemony in the online space up until now...

... and now that we have conveniently come up with a way to better approximate scarcity in digital goods, the real big capital players are starting to pay attention. DRM is kiddy stuff in comparison.

Look, there are some really cool things that nfts could be used for (handwaving the planet-destroying energy needs, anyway). You could make an mmo that you never need to worry about the company taking the servers down

because the cost of hosting the database is offloaded to clients in a distributed peer to peer fashion. You don't have to build in scarcity beyond whatever the game balance demands as a satisfying challenge or whatever.

And that's just the most frivolous example I can think of. But no, we've gotta appease Capital and, like, engage in money laundering with gifs of Undertaker throwing Mankind off of Hell in a Cell in 1998 where he plummeted 16 feet into an announcer's table, or whatever

And yeah it's obviously impossible to fulfill that vision 100% until we hit true universal postscarcity but that doesn't mean we should give up and let Moloch have his way right?

The best thing my math teacher ever taught me is that a calculator just lets you get the wrong answer faster.

Tech shouldn't just be a dumb calculator, letting us make the same stupid mistakes but at light speed. Do we really need more fucking baseball cards?