The Emperor's New Blockchain

Funny my take reverses the political assignments.

I see many left-wing commentators such as Ibram X. Kendi as (almost) inclined to think something like "black people have been oppressed for centuries so we should let black people win all the time in small claims court."

The pattern for right-wing commentary that gets flagged on hacker news is that it pre-supposes it is possible to do moral accounting to six decimal places. It's a horrible crime you know that Bill Gates only captures 98% of what he deserved from Microsoft, Matt Taibbi will remind you how long the list of small accumulated grievances is that have to be addressed before his tribe will ever listen to a leftist, never mind somebody who thinks you should get vaccinated or sometimes wear a mask. The offense these people take at affirmative action has underneath it the idea that candidate A has 111.313 units of merit and has to be chosen over candidate B with 111.312 units of merit.

That kind of thinking is so exhausting because it precludes meaningful answers like "Crypto is a scam" that will save an endless examination of details that ends only when people dump another bucket of details on your desk.