https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
(No, that's not a defense of cryptocurrency - just of HN comment quality, which may not be great to begin with, but which accounts like this destroy.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29545243 (Dec 2021)
Re "not a defense" - I realize it's hard to believe; you kind of have to go through the experience. But I don't have the energy to care about what people are arguing anymore, especially not on the most worn topics.
Personally, I'm much more interested in the value inherent in the Human Spirit, but others place almost no value on human life. Insurance companies place a dollar value on human life. I look at words like human resources and see how it collectivises individuals and turns them into cattle, putting a dollar value on something I think is priceless.
People addicted to power are really interested in how many people they can control. Using this metric, managers, ceo's, etc are all buying into the scam that people have value but they're worth less than themselves. Using this metric any job is a scam, & it rides on the back of the notion that a piece of paper with $100 marked on it, formerly backed by gold, is actually worth anything.
¹ https://intelligent-partnership.com/paper-gold-volumes-vs-ph...