[always_smiling]

It is truly baffling to look at the issues in tech, your alienation with your own work and point at regulations. This field has been almost completely unrestrained and egged on by every opportunist and schemer holding political office.

You blame regulations and then mention that everything is pointless because everything is: "sisyphean because of the bureaucracy and monopolization".

The tech industry is lousy with scams, hell the entire model of the global economy is exit scamming everyone. No one builds anything because it is meant to last, everyone is fighting for the next IPO or buyout. You have pointed your ire in the wrong direction... because you were unable to scam first? Confusing...

[jongjong]

I guess it's possible that most people who turned out to be scammers had good intentions initially. Still, I had a real plan to drive adoption and create something positive in crypto. I did implement something positive on the tech side which largely fell on deaf ears but I sometimes think that it's precisely because I wasn't a scammer, that people sensed I wouldn't bend, that I wasn't 'allowed' to make it in that industry.

There is definitely a belief in this industry that its primary intent was to demoralise those fleeing the traditional system... Almost as a way to scare them back towards papa fiat.

Crypto, as it turned out, was likely a case of the fiat system playing good cop bad cop with the world's nerds. To push them around and demoralise them into apathy and compliance.