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"Paradigm" is a word I chose to convey a specific meaning, which is "the way you approach/think about something". It might be more common in my language, I'm not trying to make either crypto or me sound smarter. I'm for precision of language, if you're more into newspeak you do you. You also seem to think I'm trying to convince you that "crypto is good", which is not the case. You have either misunderstood my comment, or are just trying to pick a bone. Either way, that's not very debatable for a racoon :)

My point is that people fall into fallacies by simplifying things too much, and only looking at the surface. See how your doubling down on "crypto actually bad" is beside it? Granted, I really should've picked a different case in point than cryptocurrencies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'll bite. How? It's open source software championed by a Finnish academic professor.

Sorry, but then by that argument cryptography itself is bad because "pedos use it"? Criminals will always use privacy-preserving technology/techniques/strategies. Should we renounce our right to have secure communication, or a decentralized currency because of that? Hasn't this argument been done to death already?

The underlying technology of a thing doesn’t have much bearing on the properties of the thing as far as practical usage goes.

Excuse me, what? Of course it does matter if the backup for all your life's photos is in an hard disk in your living room, or it's on Google's server. Of course it matters if the platform we're talking on is Lemmy, and not Reddit. It does make a difference if the car you're driving is gas or electric, where it was made, if it shows you ads or not. What are you going on about? It makes all the difference in the world, but that's on "the backend" and no one remembers that it does matter

The internet is a buzzword thrown onto old concepts? Instantaneous transfer of large amounts of data? Democratization and seamless diffusion of anything, from memes to "money"? "no but crypto is indeed a scam" is completely missing my point, and hitting the meme again

The same room? Remember to take your meds

Is it trying to speedrun turning into a crab by skipping wayy too many steps?

middle class america

You mean above the poverty line?

Nonsense has been a staple of the internet since forever

It doesn't matter who's to blame. The question is where is your nation going, and what are you going to do about it? Are you going to let all the terrible things happen because "it's the other guys' fault"?

Empiricist is a very solid take tbf

I live in a place where many shops are closed on Sundays and have reduced hours on Saturdays. The place where I was born is everything open all the time. It's a cultural thing, also very dependent on how consumerist the country is