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[–] UnseriousAcademic@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Money represents the aggregate value of the intersection between human labour, ingenuity and scarce finite resources. Human lives are routinely rendered down, ground up and consumed by the drive to generate this representative value. Entire ways of living, forms of self perception and our understanding of what makes a human worthy of existing is inextricably wrapped up in this value generating process.

As a society we have declared that these people are best placed to decide what to do with that value. They chose anime.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, see, if they chose anime that would at least represent an investment in the creation of something however questionable it's overall value for the level of resources involved.

Instead they see anime as a thing people like and are trying to link their existing AI and crypto concepts to it in order to bouy their public perception and get a halo effect going.

They're not choosing to put that value in anime, they're hoping to use anime to make the things they did choose seem more valuable than they are, because otherwise they made horrible choices and won't be given as large a share of society's surplus output to use on the next thing.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

that's literally it, yes

fucking blockchain games but the illustrations have big eyes