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According to Lemmy Users: Blockchain was a grift, AI is a grift, Quantum computing will be a future grift. So according to you what new and emergent technologies are not / will not be a grift? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[-] 0xtero@beehaw.org 32 points 3 weeks ago

Capitalism makes every innovation into a grift

[-] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago

I agree. No matter how much a technology will eventually be useful, it's always turned into a gift beforehand, then there's the collapse and only after that it settles into a reasonable thing.

See: the dot-com bubble

[-] Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

So what innovation would socialism turn into a grift?

[-] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Vanguardism, as seen in Russia and China.

[-] 0xtero@beehaw.org 0 points 3 weeks ago

We’ve seen this movie already

this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026

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