How does someone get such a job? It’s not like the nyt puts out an online app, screens thousands, then picks a random individual. It’s always going to be through personal networks.
I mean there's only like one person who has the job of "Crossword Making Guy" and it's Will Shortz, the crossword editor for the NYT.
If you want to get your crossword published by the NYTimes, all you have to do is write a good one and submit it.
I've met a guy who has a couple of crosswords published by them. He didn't have personal connections with anyone, he's not anyone special, he's a regular guy with a regular job. What did he have to do? He liked crosswords and tried writing them, then submitted them. They got accepted and published, that's it. There's no shadowy cabal of crossword writers secretly running the world.
Games, collectibles, lending, money markets, exclusive virtual clubs, international payments, trading are just a selection of activities I’ve personally engaged in on chain in ways I could not have off chain.
Also whether or not you like speculation, many people do and it’s not a crime.
Interesting that the article misscharacterized Nozick as right wing, completely missing the history of rejection of libertarians by both right and left parties and the continued outreach by libertarians to both.
A good place to start would be with this text on Rothbard’s leftism, which connects ideas you may already familiar regarding libertarianism with leftism: https://cdn.mises.org/19_1_2.pdf
However the roots go much deeper. Nozick himself was advancing the progressive tradition. One way to understand it is to start by considering how the state was the tool leftist had used through the 19th century to advance individual human rights. Once the state had become totalizing in the way all modern capitalist countries are today, the only way forward to advance human rights further must involve the dissolution of the state since oppression is no longer caused by traditional social mores but rather by the system that replaced those. That’s why you often see weird alliances between rightists and libertarians: the few remnants of reactionary resistance against the state allied with what is at core a radical progressive movement. Leftists are a more natural ally with libertarians but cannot support libertarians as leftist power flows from state authority.
There’s also a more specific history of libertarian plus leftist conference and other collaborations but I’m not knowledgeable on the details, merely that the info is there if you search for it.
Minimal state is absolutely compatible with leftist philosophy! Anarchism itself is a leftist movement. What’s incompatible isn’t ideology, its praxis. Mainstream leftist movements rely on state power to further their goals. That said there’s still a ton of great leftist movements today that attempt to sidestep statism.
It’s both. Collective madness supports the ruler while the ruler cultivated collective madness. You don’t even have to look into the extremes to see this- both democrats with Biden and republicans with Trump are seeing complete unreality, while both rulers have taken well documented evil actions (mass murder, human rights violations, etc). Rulers can be evil while their supporters are also evil and insane as well.
I personally experience this loop all the time on different sites. I’ve completely given up - if a site loops I don’t use it and try again a few weeks later. If it’s something extremely urgent I use my mobile device which for some unknown reason never loops.
There’s a wide range of products and services that are native to crypto that you don’t have access too without a blockchain wallet. Now you personally might not care about nfts, tokens, exclusive clubs, blockchain games just to list a few, but other people definitely do.
Also the parent comment is out to lunch, crypto will likely never replace fiat simply because there’s nothing preventing states from implementing the parts of crypto that succeed.
> Now you personally might not care about nfts, tokens, exclusive clubs, blockchain games just to list a few, but other people definitely do.
Sure, but those are niche things that most people will never care about. Awesome for the people who are into such things, but not a draw for everyone else.
Kind of depends on PayPal’s implementation details, but it’s still quite painful to transfer assets between web3 and the traditional financial system. If it’s easy to transfer pyusd from PayPal to a private ethereum wallet and vice versa, it could potentially be an easier way to move usd in and out of crypto.
Of course this probably won’t happen for regulatory reasons, and even if it does pyusd may have the same type of blacklisting that prevents many dapps from using usdc.
It’s programmable, meaning you can use it for smart contracts. A common smart contract use case is dex smart contracts that let you swap between other cryptos and usd without any counterparty risk.
PayPal is a closed ecosystem that doesn’t support smart contracts or any other form of arbitrary code execution. If your point is that traditional finance uses code, sure, but that disguises the real differences between those systems and web3.
If you’re abandoning your friends because of political differences, you’re part of the problem. Picking fights with people because you don’t agree with them doesn’t change any minds and does make the world a little worse. Also, your beliefs may not be rooted in fact as much as you’d like or you might be more confident in your truth to win in its own.
