the appeal of bitcoin (and other ponzis) is essentially "you too can profit off the backs of poor people, just like jeff bezos"
how the fuck have american hypercapitalists managed to convince so many people that this is their goal/future
john steinbeck said that thing about americans considering themselves temporarily embarrassed millionaires but i want to know why
why is this a thing
@xnx38h @astraluma my understanding is that many americans correlate financial success and spiritual goodness for [long history of strange interpretations of Christianity] reasons, and also do not want to think of themselves as spiritually bankrupt
so belief in a deservingness of material wealth follows from that somewhat naturally, as does excusing the transgressions of the wealthy
