You're right, and I and you know you're right, but you're also banging your head against a brick wall. The only real thing for sane people to do at this point is to just live our lives and let these people pave the road to hell they'll unhappily run down. These are not rational minds and they get less rational with every day. Time to disconnect from them and live a healthy, happy, positive, non neurotic life tbh.
Name one thing that isn't a ponzi, everybody's profits in every respect come from somewhere else, the only things that get called a ponzi are things which make the game and exploitation too transparent to the degree in which they offend the human delusion that we are fundamentally good or that there are positive-sum games that exist at all.
You are vastly overestimating the competency of bureaucrats and their minions. The people sitting at the top of current power structures are ghosts of the past, mimics pretending to have influence and having to resort to implicit coercion instead of explicit coercion to get what they want. Crypto is inevitable and will undermine the legacy financial system eventually, whatever name or symbol crypto has is irrelevant to the underlying mechanics at play.
Yeah, most NFTs are just references to a database hosting a file somewhere. There are exceptions, but this is the case with sites like Rarible as far as I know. The exceptions are less popular and less well known because they aren't scams and are actually interesting technology-wise, and thus aren't doing a ton of marketing or promotion or being used for money laundering or tax scams like most NFTs currently are.
This doesn't make any sense. Yes, people who loan out assets are penalized, but so are the salt of the earth people who watch as their money buys less food, utilities cost more, car repairs cost more, etc. Just because it's bad for predatory parasites doesn't mean it's not bad for normal people.
Not mentioned: the electricity and heating/cooling of visa office buildings, the car and plane travel for visa execs and employees, the law and military in place to maintain the environment for visa to operate, the lawyers involved in visas and their energy expenditures.
The whole thing is quite funny. The best part is that we have only just begun this process and by the time we get to the end of it the people who "learned their lesson" about pushing for this won't remember who warned them about it in the first place.
This is a good idea with the caveat that twitter gets more sane banning/suspension policies. For any interesting or non-traditional writers/thinkers, the process of building up a platform and having it taken away from you by some tech overlord is a very common experience. Most people with any audience who say anything of value are very wary of anything associated with twitter, so there needs to be some administrative and policy changes before anybody of value uses this.
The people who think 4chan is some existential threat to society rather than anti-social people and people with autism blowing off steam and being mean to each other are the people who aren't very familiar with 4chan. 99% of it is just shitposts, the other 0.9% is people who aren't doing anything bad, the 0.1% is removed.