Full quote, from the above link:
"Wussup normal peeps and 14 year old environmental hypocrite trolls that use gasoline in the cars they drive and the planes they fly and throw away double AA batteries every other month! "
H then goes on to hawk the link to some stupid CGI "art" bullshit that would be inoffensive and whatever, if not for the fact that creating it is ghoulishly greedy and selfish, given it's helping propagate/perpetuate a needless act that's destroying the environment further.
Youtube is free to watch/open access for anyone to post (YouTube's shitty copywrite system and moderation notwithstanding)
Ehtereum, unless I'm mistaken, is literally a form of currency - decentralized, but, with prices/the current system how they are, it's effecivaly the same as owning stock.
Partaking in the proliferation of an alternative, completely unnecessary, but equally exploitative and status quo maintaining currency, on which capitalism is further supported, is much worse, to me, than a free system of millions of hours of entertainment/education, which allows for personal creative expression as well. No one has to partake in Ehtereum; it's not like normal currency in which, yes, we must gain and use it to literally avoid dying and starving. Ehtereum is completely superfluous, and a luxury, which offers nothing, or next to nothing, comparatively.
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So because I do not waist what little money I have on meaningless internet money that somehow invalidates what I said?
That's the thing - and one of my main points in my post - is that you are completely mistaken and you're getting Ethereum confused with Bitcoin from a functionality standpoint. Ethereum - nor blockchain - isn't just a currency and critiquing it as such is wrong. ETH is the currency used on Ethereum which is a decentralized platform that developers build decentralized applications with smart contracts. It's essentially a massive decentralized super computer - or internet - that isn't owned or maintained by a single party. This is good given Azure/GCP/AWS's growing monopoly on cloud computing and their bloodlust for working with intelligence agencies and military contractors.
Here's a really cool post-capitalist productive network project called Basis built on Ethereum.
It sounds like your concerns are rooted in not understanding blockchain which is understandable given it's a super complex nascent technology whose information is primarily disseminated through libertarian weirdos.
EDIT: Also yeah, saying Youtube is "free" to watch/access is a bit naive and just overlooks just about everything understood about privacy, intrusive ads, locational content blocking, demonetizations of left youtubers and more.
Are you on basis github (which is interesting, and exactly kind of shit crypto can be good at)? I think it’s good, but ip/creative work is increasingly easy to solve in crypto space
So I agree with your criticisms overall and I'd rather take the anti-blockchain side of the debate I personally think waiving the "YT/Internet is FREE" flag specifically is very much a horrible take.
Claiming the internet is "free" like many liberals and everyone else realy resorts to defend capitalism benefits/advancements, and it is usually us socialists that have to point out that "free" if you don't include, the actual cost of your device, the cost of energy required to power your device, the actual cost of internet access(free WI-Fi is not omnipresent in the vast majority of the world) etc. Even when these costs are low to the consumer, say a cheap phone, they are already externalized, you know how much does it realy cost a society to mass produce cheap smartphones?
For people creating content well you are not going anywhere in terms of popularity without a proper microphone and a proper camera, or maybe you'd be limited to some other platform then YT.