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In 1999's Matrix (for those who haven't watched it may have some spoiler), the film exposes, in a fictitious and playful way, the relationship between people and the "system".
In short, it demonstrates how our life forces are reused by systemic machines to keep the machines themselves and the system itself alive.
This is the view from the point of view of those who were/are disconnected from this fictional system exposed in the film. In the sequels, they expose computer programming techniques and physical network modeling, in a clear analogy to the invasion of this system.
At a certain point, in a moment of demonstrating the justification of machines, it happens, in short, that they, machines, when building the Matrix, would actually be protecting humans, almost like a symbiosis, but pay attention to one detail: even at an unconscious level , the individual has to accept being there.
Look, after 22 years, if this isn't what we live in the world of crypto-currencies: rewards, stakes, loyalty programs, referrals, games that promise rewards in crypto-currencies, and whatever else they come up with.
In the second matrix, 2003, there is a definition that always comes to mind, from Merovingio (or the equivalent of the Christian Lucifer): "Hope is a construct built by those who have power, for those who don't, so that they don't give up!" and, in another moment: "Information is power, it's what rules the world..." talking in sequence about the illusion of those who don't have the knowledge of thinking they have some power.
The conflict between power, control, decision and politics is finally apparent.
The machines propose that they are in symbiosis, but in fact they are parasitizing, sucking life in the form of electrical energy to dominate, while returning the crumbs of a dream world to humans. The explanation of what they do to the dead evidences this mechanism.
This is that parasitism that gradually withers a person.
Let's go to another movie, from 1977, ALIEN: ALIEN's strategy, as a species, is brilliant: the parasite uses the host to place an egg inside. When developed, this baby alien comes out destroying the host's chest. That is, not the slightest chance that the host will survive. (Except for Ripley who survived a movie and a half with a queen's egg on her chest - sorry for the spoiler). But here comes the question: why the hard work of laying eggs, to create an evolutionary stage, to lay another egg at the whereabouts, to then create drones ALIENS to protect the colony? As if they were insects?
I answer: ADAPTATION to the environment, as the alien adapts to the environment by using the host's DNA.
Well, in these two playful analogies comes the demonstration of what happens in crypto-currencies (in the financial market in general it is like that, but crypto-currencies, with their speed and without any honor, take it to the extreme):
- Just like the Matrix, the cables keep those who accept the programming, those who buy that crypto-currency, are in the environment (whatever the name of the crypto-currency) being sucked in by fees, variations and exchange offers deceptively better.
- Just like the Matrix, an illusion of rewards is created, of links to new wallets that promise part of the profits to those who place other people (ponzy scheme?), keeping the illusory world that if you don't do it, the gains will come.
- Just like the Matrix, games are created to keep you asleep, play and win crypto-coins (but you have to reach a level to withdraw), but it's not said that the fees eat the winnings and the person, in hope, in the illusion , continues to power the system.
- Just like in Alien, where the host wakes up without realizing the egg in the throat and, when he feels it, the chest has already exploded, here comes the famous phrase "kill me"!
- Just like in Alien, the system, the beehive, always adapts to the environment it is in, that is, another cryto-currency, with "revolutionary" algorithmic techniques that reduce losses, which are said to reduce risks to operators.
In the history of economics, there is a justification for the use of money, coins: (an allusion below, to illustrate)
There was a craftsman who made wooden stools. He made, by his own means, ten stools a day.
There was another artisan who made shoes, produced, per day, by his own means, 4 shoes a day.
And they traded a stool for a pair of shoes. Until one day those who make shoes didn't want more stools.
On that day, there was an equation: instead of exchanging products, production times began to be exchanged. But how to translate production times into something marketable? Cash.
Money is nothing more than the translation of time spent on production, allocation of the productive means, in order to be able to exchange with other people with other productive interests.
Profit appears when a person who owned tools and supplies says: "don't worry about the means of production, with tools or supplies, I'll supply you!".
Then, we took the stool maker, no longer having to worry about the means, he started to manufacture 30 stools a day. The media inmates continued to pay the artisan, but for 15 stools.
Whoever is reading it, let it end as you please (because this is the philosophical clash between capitalism as a system and socialism as a system - not being the focus of this article: if you want, I'll write about it, leave it in the comments!), but time has passed. to be shared by more people.
And that time, symbolized by money, by coins, gained creative contours of how to multiply without necessarily being produced, being spent to make something physical.
In other words, as in the matrix, the system takes from us what we have most to offer: time.
As in alien, time is given to the host only in what makes the animal grow inside itself, then it's over for the host.
Let's reflect: when does this universe of crypto-currencies really differ from these two playful stories? One over 20 and one over 50? And both inspired by writers who showed these predictions over 80 years ago?
As the architect said in The Matrix: "It reveals itself in the end, the aspects of the apparent incongruity, of the apparent human contradiction: of decision-making, of power, of control!"
As the oracle said: "You're not here to make the decision, you've already made it, you're here to understand the decision made! Because you can't see beyond what you understand!"
I will let the reader conclude. Check this world you are in, how connected you are, in fact! How dependent you are on making choices that you don't understand, or that don't see dangers. The old elders of the traditional financial market always put the time component in graphical equations.
Finally, alluding to the matrix, I leave a thought in the form of a programming algorithm: (to illustrate Elon Musk, or any other speculator)
main ( )
[buy dog ->; crash bitcoin ->; raise dog level ->; sum more millions.
while (gain) [
buy another low cost crypto ->; crash first crypt ->; raise the another low cost crypto ->; sum more millions. ]
]
Just like the matrix, on its little green screen, or the eggs laid by the queen, in Alien, you must watch what's behind the system, to protect yourself.
It is not a question of getting money by cryto-currencies or day trading, but how to do it, with knowledge, security, planning.
The greater the risk, the greater the gain!
But at what price do certain people do this?
"No pain, no gain!" or "No guts, no gain" in the 1980s cartoon series Galaxy Rangers (another allusion to power and parasitism).
What is the total cost of crypto-currencies, apart from overheating machines, or environmental costs?
How big is this hypocrisy, when we think about machines, the environment or global warming, but if you think about people who put savings in life and who, in a flash, lose everything apparently for reasons of twitter?
Was it just that? or we have governments using it as a smokescreen for real intentions in the "national" interest.
Reflections, reflections, reflections, because crypto-currencies are, invariably, temporal manipulation.
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