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The funniest thing about NFTs is all the real companies that fell for that shit (hexbear.net)
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The most obvious stupid scam ever conceived and they actually managed to hook a bunch of actual corporations

Square Enix, Nickelodeon, Coke, KFC, and more fell for this shit while regular people were laughing about how obvious a con it was.

Really puts into question the capitalist myth of the genius entrepreneur and the idea that these corporate types are rich because they are smart or deserving in some way.

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

SBF convinced venture capitalists at sequoia to invest in FTX while playing WoW.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

:theory-gary: it was League of Legends

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

and he wasn't even winning at the game

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

The only qualified economics experts are Challenger tier heated-gamer-moment

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I'm just saying would you give billions of dollars to someone getting absolutely bodied in a league of legends game at the business meeting

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