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I'll be working on refining my pitch about how bad everything is and why the system needs to change... And posting that into the void where nobody will ever read it due to big tech algorithm censorship... While working a day job which allows me to profit from the root of all system flaws which I keep complaining about because it's the only one I could find which pays the bills... A kind of forced hypocrisy.

Happy new year.

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This sounds like something I would've written. Know you're not alone in recognizing this, and best of luck! One of us will get he message across.

If you post proposals for change, rather than why everything sucks, you may have better reception. The internet is full of armchair cynics who like to talk about how everything sucks. But few people are actually out there trying to impact a change, even if just in the form of ideas.

This is not a criticism of you by the way, just an observation of what I've found actually works. By my nature I'm pretty cynical but I try and hold it back, it is rarely productive.

The problem is that there are solutions available (e.g. blockchain and the decentralize movement) but those which managed to get attention in the early days were soon corrupted by the current system to serve the current system. Then the movement proceeded to discredit itself through intentional, repeated scamming of customer funds.

I think there is a chance that SBF of FTX will not go to jail because he is working for the system.

I guess the solution now is a legal and political one. Expose the crimes and lock people up. The scale of it will be of epic proportions. Probably won't be enough room in existing jails. We'll have to seize assets and send the criminals to some new penal colony.

While SBF was a nice present for “the system”, him suffering the consequences it’s also part of the deal.

Legally speaking, there is no chance SBF wouldn’t do time, with a big probability of doing a lot of it. The mousie looking lady will also get it but it depends how much the feds got on SBF and if they need her or not.

I think a lot of people recognize that there needs to be change, they just don’t know how to bring it about.

If you actually have a manifesto of sorts I wouldn't mind reading it.

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