Cryptocurrency's popularity in the U.S. tied to conservative moral foundations
Cryptocurrency's popularity in the U.S. tied to conservative moral foundations
A recent study indicates that U.S. cryptocurrency enthusiasts resonate more with conservative moral values than liberal ones. While revealing a clear link, the findings are correlational and primarily focus on American crypto advocates. ...
DeFi was supposed to be a rad lefty thing in its conception. Conservatives can truly ruin anything.
reverse midas-touch 🤣
Everything they touch turns to the gold standard
It was never a "lefty thing". It was a right wing libertarian thing from its inception, and that hasn't changed at all.
Crypto itself isn't an issue. My view has always been that it wasn't meant to be an investment, but a currency. The issues are the grifters and loons that promote this as an investment.
And incidentally, the rampant speculation around them has rendered them mostly worthless as a currency due to the high fluctuations in price
The most obnoxious people I've ever met were all conspiracy loonie right wing crypto bros
That explains a lot actually.
Idk feels a bit like propaganda to me, crypto is the closest to a socialist currency you can get; instead of one or 2 super banks controlling all the money its divided throughout the people.
but then again this study has no (and obviously couldn't easily) bias control for such a factor
Crypto is a pyramid scheme. It's not currency.
Anything under capitalism is a pyramid scheme, its just most noticeable when its more sharp of a pyramid
To be fair, the currency is a collectively managed element. But currency trading is prospective investing, id est majorly doing a capitalism which is quite conservatve.
If we just bought stuff with crypto and tried to stabilize prices that would be a public-service driven effort, ergo socialist
This is surprising to me tbh. I always assumed crypto bros were left leaning.
Must not have spent much time in crypto spaces. I would say they trend along the lines of Joe Rogan fans, but they are definitely more " bro libertarian " then leftist if anything.
There are some leftists who are into crypto currencies, but by and large most of the crypto space is dominated by anti game stop bois,investors, business moguls, drug dealers and small business owners.
Not exactly a huge overlap with leftist ideals there.
Back in the day when I was briefly into bitcoin (for the mining, which was still possible back then using GPUs) the bitcoin.org forums were mostly populated by americans who were sticking it to 'the fed' and had a deep distrust of authority. Some of them were seriously unhinged.. I didn't hang around there for long - only so much crazy I can cope with.
When I saw the people in silly costumes storming the whitehouse on TV that's exactly the kind of person I can imagine was posting on the bitcoin forums.
Crypto bros are likely overwhelmingly libertarian since a lot of crypto bro mentality gels with that ideology, particularly that it makes currency decentralized and more controlled by private entities. Cryptocurrencies as a whole will have various aspects that may appeal to other groups, however. Like yeah, it'd be great if we could reduce the power that banks have over us, but cryptocurrency often devolves into whoever has the most coins controls everything, critically with proof of stake systems. I'm convinced that bitcoin is only as valued now because rich people (who got their riches outside of bitcoin) have controlled it and are playing games with it.
The only people currently using crypto do so in order to get rich.
Don't see many left leaning people worshipping money and throwing everyone they can under the bus in order to make capital.
I would it expect to be bi-partisan. What reasons do we have for crypto? Security, faster transaction time, independent of government (more of a global currency), taxes too high, transparency, etc.
Let's be real, the only reason why the vast majority of people are in it is wanting to get rich by selling it at a higher price to someone in the future.
The term currency is kinda misleading, it's really more like a commodity whose only purpose is price speculation on exchanges.
There was a push from propagandists to get communists on board with crypto. Sadly it worked because I see them on occasion.
Not super shocking. The circles i see lean quite libertarian to anarchist and they love crypto, gold, and silver because "fuck the government". I find myself mostly in agreement as i think the governmyth attracts psychos who get off on telling others how to live their lives. If we stopped using their money they could not afford to fund more wars and i would be willing to go out on a limb and say that state government is as big as it should get. With clauses that anyone can enter or leave their jurisdiction at any time for any reason at all or no reason.
I would consider cypher punk crypto anarchy the first left libertarian form of governance (edit: that could function on a global scale), an interesting hybrid of communism and capitalism.
Communism today is incompatible with democracy, it needs authoritarianism to have the level of control needed to redistribute all resources.
Right authoritarianism creates social hierarchies
Right libertarianism tries to be decentralized but just recreates feudalism
Left libertarianism is typically impractical. If the government doesn't have authority to tax, how can you redistribute wealth? If the government doesn't have weapons, how can it tax? If the social organization is decentralized, how do you maintain cohesion? If anarchy is rules without rules, how do you create rules without rulers?
Blockchain solves some of these problems. Maintaining an identity system is the main hurdle. In a crypto currency like Bitcoin, your private keys which prove ownership of money is your identity. But if it was just your computer was your identity, people could just spin up multiple computers and vote 10 times.
So unfortunately, the "rules of governance" are limited to network rules about the Blockchain. If you can implement a decentralized ID, you can securely automate parts of the government that have to do with things like voting or proposing policy.
Most informed comment ITT. Thank you for sharing it.
Left libertarian has a long tradition. Otherwise I somewhat agree.
Anarchists are by definition not conservative
i thought i was getting my bumps from mexico wtf mccarthy
FFS, make SHIB's value to $0.01!