Toward a Theory of Kevin RoseSome insight on why people back crypto, A.I., ICE, and Trump: They just want to back “winners.” I think this extends to a lot of other technology choices, too.
Likewise, when all the rich guys got behind cryptocurrency, and all the rich cryptocurrency guys got behind Donald Trump, for these people the thing to do was very obvious, even if they had previously regarded crypto as a scam: not just to buy some cryptocurrency—the kind of move any cynic might make—but to adopt the attitudes and positions of a crypto enthusiast. Neither their conscience nor their concept of dignity troubles them in this switcheroo, because they take for granted that this is the precise way everyone forms the stuff they say and appear to think.