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Manic Technophile
Nov 13, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

Karl Barks posted:

thug lessons is trolling this thread fer sure
I thought we all were? I'm a diehard bitcoin supporter IRL

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crazy cloud
Nov 7, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Lipstick Apathy

Manic Technophile posted:

I thought we all were? I'm a diehard bitcoin supporter IRL

Post and username combo :thunk:

SpaceGoku
Jul 19, 2011

Alpha Mayo posted:

I didn't mean the official term (giving the rich capitalists more money will make its way to the working class), which doesn't actually exist, but more like 'capitalists will throw money into more and more ridiculous investments' as those investments become overvalued, because they run out of places to put their money.

They throw money at undervalued->appropriately valued->overvalued->extremely overvalued->bitcoin->bitcoin forks. Bitcoin is pure speculation with no native value. Right now, Bitcoin market cap is $132 billion., That's about the size of IBM or McDonald's, corporations that hold assets, deliver products and sometimes profit/dividends. The only value with Bitcoin is speculated growth.

I think most of the people with real money getting involved in bitcoin just see it as a way to move their money around traditional financial barriers, such as sanctions or transfer limits

there are speculators yeah but a chinese billionaire isn't buying bitcoins as an investment, but to get money out of the yuan and into dollars or euros

bitcoin transactions also conveniently launder the money for you

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/934126620973064192

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
first reply lol

https://twitter.com/LennyLiebmann/status/934127546400235522

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/934130802593554432
https://twitter.com/business/status/934131786627584007

Rhesus Pieces
Jun 27, 2005

more like Jeff Bezoar

Poniard
Apr 3, 2011



more like.... jeff bozo!!!!!!!

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS


Women clothes! 1 dollar!

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Taintrunner posted:



Women clothes! 1 dollar!

They appear to be clothes for second life or some poo poo

if they were for star citizen then we'd be talking

Wutang-Yutani CORP
Sep 25, 2005

CORPORATIONS
RULE
EVERYTHING
AROUND
ME


Is this guy for real lol?

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/934443942384463873

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
I'd be happy for even $1m of free land! <:mad:>

pushpins
Sep 11, 2006


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Pick posted:

I'd be happy for even $1m of free land! <:mad:>

Can't even get 40 acres and a mule

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

pushpins posted:

Can't even get 40 acres and a mule

haha yeah $1m will not get you 40 acres in socal

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

Socialism alive and well in the United States.

Edit:

quote:

The new and still hypothetical town could have only one logical mayor.

"Jeff Bezos can be the mayor, CEO, king, whatever they want to call it," Lary said. "He'll be the first person to actually have a corporate city."

Inhabiting its own town would mean Amazon could build on land just outside of Atlanta, establish an "eternal brand" in DeKalb County and have its own post office and mailing addresses, Lary said.

:lol:

Rand alPaul fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Nov 26, 2017

Willie Tomg
Feb 2, 2006
ahahahhahahahaha the realization that amazon will accept one of these utterly insane arrangements

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Willie Tomg posted:

ahahahhahahahaha the realization that amazon will accept one of these utterly insane arrangements

Which US city will offer primae noctis as a benefit?

Willie Tomg
Feb 2, 2006
even if amazon remotely gave a poo poo about the optics of accepting such, these proposals are getting more and more absurd and sooner or later amazon's gonna have to take one of them before jeff bezos start getting offered the firstborn daughters of everyone sitting on city council

Willie Tomg
Feb 2, 2006

etalian posted:

Which US city will offer primae noctis as a benefit?

birmingham.

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

two-year tax holiday, immunity from labor laws, and a virgin sacrificed to jeff bezos volcano fortress monthly

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



we live in the cyberpunk future and it sucks

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Please relay this message to Lord CEO jeff bezos, that he may lay with our hundred finest and purest virgins if he so wisely chooses to build the HQ here in Bloomington

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

Please relay this message to Lord CEO jeff bezos, that he may lay with our hundred finest and purest virgins if he so wisely chooses to build the HQ here in Bloomington

doesn't he have enough virgins at his company as is?

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
Just :lol: that the mayor in Georgia wanted to call the city Amazon and not Primelot.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

will probably be NYC or DC since tech companies prefer smug coastal cities

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747
glob willing, keep the trash in one place

Wutang-Yutani CORP
Sep 25, 2005

CORPORATIONS
RULE
EVERYTHING
AROUND
ME

Rand alPaul posted:

Socialism alive and well in the United States.

Edit:


:lol:

amazing because this isn't a new idea

they did it during the gilded age and it was called the company town

before long the amazon employee won't be paid is US Dollars but in amazon currency that they can only use at the amazon store and they will live in amazon housing that they will not own

eventually they will attempt to rise up but bezos will send in the pinkerton drone company to machine gun them from the skies

time is a flat circle

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Lactose Is Wack posted:

amazing because this isn't a new idea

they did it during the gilded age and it was called the company town

before long the amazon employee won't be paid is US Dollars but in amazon currency that they can only use at the amazon store and they will live in amazon housing that they will not own

eventually they will attempt to rise up but bezos will send in the pinkerton drone company to machine gun them from the skies

time is a flat circle

Skynet will happen when a glitch causes the drones to change from eliminate striking workers to eliminate all workers.

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

Lactose Is Wack posted:

amazing because this isn't a new idea

they did it during the gilded age and it was called the company town

before long the amazon employee won't be paid is US Dollars but in amazon currency that they can only use at the amazon store and they will live in amazon housing that they will not own

eventually they will attempt to rise up but bezos will send in the pinkerton drone company to machine gun them from the skies

time is a flat circle

so what you're saying is history repeats itself and we're about to see a great depression in our lifetime. rad.

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747

anime was right posted:

so what you're saying is history repeats itself and we're about to see a great depression in our lifetime. rad.

buddy, we're pretty much there now

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

got any sevens posted:

buddy, we're pretty much there now

The good news is that due to things like deregulation of the finance sector and globalism, the oscillations are just getting bigger over time....

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

got any sevens posted:

buddy, we're pretty much there now

no no no, we're teetering, but not quite!

Rhesus Pieces
Jun 27, 2005

Lactose Is Wack posted:

amazing because this isn't a new idea

they did it during the gilded age and it was called the company town

before long the amazon employee won't be paid is US Dollars but in amazon currency that they can only use at the amazon store and they will live in amazon housing that they will not own

eventually they will attempt to rise up but bezos will send in the pinkerton drone company to machine gun them from the skies

time is a flat circle

Amazon currency = Amazon gift cards

businesses try to force cash cards loaded with fees on employees in lieu of paychecks every chance they get, tesco over in the U.K. just got caught doing it to temps

hey instead of a fee-laden cash card why not a fee-free Amazon card? :smug:

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

Rhesus Pieces posted:

Amazon currency = Amazon gift cards

businesses try to force cash cards loaded with fees on employees in lieu of paychecks every chance they get, tesco over in the U.K. just got caught doing it to temps

hey instead of a fee-laden cash card why not a fee-free Amazon card? :smug:

hey, at least the amazon company store has literally everything on the planet for sale

NewForumSoftware
Oct 8, 2016

by Lowtax

anime was right posted:

hey, at least the amazon company store has literally everything on the planet for sale

except for products made by their competitors like google

and lol if you think that won't be extended to other product categories/companies if its profitable

antitrust is dead anyways

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
whew, just spent 18 hours at the amazon factory packaging amazon basics brand essentials. time to recieve my amazon gift card and go home on my amazon bus to log on and post about hashtags in order to get amazon coupons. sweet now i can finally get amazon now food delivery. weird, the only thing i can afford with these amazon gift cards i earned for my labor is another pallet of amazon basics dehydrated meat byproduct. but this is capitalism, the perfect system????

susan b buffering
Nov 14, 2016

anime was right posted:

hey, at least the amazon company store has literally everything on the planet for sale

this actually sucks because there;s absolutely no quality control lol

Manic Technophile
Nov 13, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

skull mask mcgee posted:

this actually sucks because there;s absolutely no quality control lol
That's what the reviews are for! Now fall back in line, employee.

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School Nickname
Apr 23, 2010

*fffffff-fffaaaaaaarrrtt*
:ussr:

etalian posted:

Skynet will happen when a glitch causes the drones to change from eliminate striking workers to eliminate all workers.

It won't be a glitch lol.

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