I guess what bothers me most about 2026-era macro economics is how shameless it all is. The wealthy are siphoning the world's entire economic surplus into a harebrained attempt to replace workers with data centers, and they've captured society so thoroughly that we're just letting them. If they succeed, what do you think the world will look like? If they don't, you can bet the consequences will not be carried by these clowns themselves.

@marijn they do it by printing momey to build put their AI and data centers.

....they dont get the money from revenue.

They can do it because we work for the money they can print to build it and maintain it all for them... why do we do that?

if everyone required them to pay in bitcoin, this would all end very quickly - but yeah, you think bitcoin is bad too so ....i guess they will just continue 🤷‍♀️

@serapath

If everything was Bitcoin, you'd have endless austerity.

Money not being a commodity is beautiful, actually.

@marijn

@budududuroiu @marijn

Bitcoin isnt really a commodity, its more like a network contract ppl can join.

Austerity is a complex phenomenon.

Nobody said anything about tax cuts or stopping government spending.

Also governments already successfully prosecute and confiscate funds and continue to do so if anyone commits tax fraud (its much more transparent)

BTC stops the capitalist class from draining us by printing money via VCs to spend it on their nepo kids which inflates house etc.. prices

@budududuroiu @marijn

Whether its web3/crypto or trump paying lip service to bitcoin, its always capitalists framing bitcoin as great and adopting it would drain governments, so that ppl get afraid and wont adopt bitcoin ...which is actually what capitalists want and it works... sadly :/