Oh, this eval / takedown in today's newsletter from RealLife Mag is so on....
Thanks to the suddenly intensifying economic downturn, some of the more dubious money-making strategies previously presented as "innovative" are being re-evaluated (i.e. fled from). The crypto crash is an obvious example: What was frequently touted as a hedge against inflation and stock market dips turned out to be a loss multiplier. It seems that crypto investors were not intent on building a decentralized alternative to the financial system after all but were just the usual suspects from the standard financial system looking for yield under conditions where conventional (i.e. actually socially useful) investment opportunities appeared to be insufficient to their greed. And as usual, that provided for scams designed to evade financial regulation so as to target novices, exploit their hope and desperation, and drain their resources away. In other words, crypto has been and will continue to be a way to replay the 2008 global financial crisis, only without requiring the pretense of building houses first in order to create risky financial bets.
