Rod HiltonApr 24, 2023

I have a hard enough time explaining what a rotary telephone is to my children.

I don't know how people are going to explain in a few years that there was this brief window where people were buying monkey jpegs for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And that the folks who were saying that was a bad idea were being treated like THEY were the morons in the scenario.

Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕Apr 24, 2023

@rodhilton People used to by "Pet Rocks" so just explain that people are insane and do stupid things... often because they see other people do stupid things and don't want to be left out.

Hmmm, there's a lesson in there somewhere!

Show threadCatMom916
@rasterweb @rodhilton But when you bought a pet rock, you had a rock. When you buy an nft, you have nothing, unless you print it out--then you have a picture. But you can do that with a picture of an nft. You don't have to buy anything. I don't understand why ppl bought nfts or bitcoins. You don't even get the rock in the end.
Apr 24, 2023 at 5:04pmWeb
Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕Apr 24, 2023
@CatMom916 @rodhilton I got to work, I get paid, and then some company tells my bank I got "money" and then I log into some app or web site and click things and pay for my rent and utilities but like... I never actually see the "money" but it does exist, I guess. Things are weird.