jdeath ,

Y'all prefer to have the government and banks in charge of money instead? seriously?

General_Effort ,

What I don't want in charge, is a shadowy cabal of a few rich people only bound to the maximization of their own profit.

I'm not paying extra to remove what little democratic control there is in the existing system.

alekwithak ,

No one is ever concerned with how much energy is used to feed ads to the entire population of earth 24/7.

Liz ,

Please propose a law or regulation structure for significantly reducing or eliminating advertisements. I'm serious. I fucking hate ads. I just don't have a reasonable or effective way to get rid of them.

Edit: Hey actually I just thought of one! If the consumer is paying for the product, it can't come with ads, including things like product placement or ad reads!

valsa ,

In São Paulo, one of the biggest cities of the world, the municipality forbade by law all billboards and building disfiguring 'decorations' some 10 years ago. Since then, the city became much more bearable, aesthetically. Nothing special happened, everybody was happy, except a few bankrupt ads agencies. Maybe, you must be able to imagine that change is possible. However, there is this ideology, Americans seem to be so fond off, that seems to make such things very difficult.

redcalcium ,

Hey actually I just thought of one! If the consumer is paying for the product, it can’t come with ads, including things like product placement or ad reads!

Smart TV manufacturers: "Impossible!"

PP_BOY_ ,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

Crypto =/= blockchain.

If you can't see the utility of blockchain with regards to things like actual, verifiable digital ownership, then I don't know what to tell you.

Lemminary ,

I want to see what you mean in practical terms, because the only other example that I know besides questionable crypto currencies is NFTs and that was an epic lesson on what not to do. 😅

halcyoncmdr ,
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No, NFTs do have good uses, but things like image NFTs are just a misappropriation, like SPAM is to email.

One use case, is clear, independently verifiable ownership of non-tangible things, like Intellectual Property rights. Movie rights for a book adaptation for instance moving between companies in IP sales and mergers/acquisitions.

fishos ,
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And it's ALWAYS the same problem. You can have all the lists you want. A central authority has to recognize and enforce that list. At which point, the structure of your list is completely irrelevant. It could be ANY list. What matters is that it's chosen to be enforced. And currently, most power structures are happy with plain old databases. Or pen and paper.

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