The pure idiocy involved in stating that you are going to increase your inventory by accepting $.42 XPY for $1 wins this effing moron the hammerhead award.
Meta: I was having a conversation this weekend with someone, and we came up with a conundrum of "Is society really trending towards an idiocracy, or is it that society over history has always had this degree of idiocracy, but the internet has given them the ultimate communication tool/outlet, so we're just seeing more of it ?"
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First... has Garza missed the boat? Does eBay take XPY directly now? Or is this guy listing on eBay then selling off line... that'll get his account kicked from eBay in a heart beat because they want their cut.
Second... checking all of the serial numbers on all of my paper bills... $75 for a $5 that isn't even in good condition? as a birthday present for someone who's 87 years old this year? The big question is, with being 87yo and an Aug birthday... do you buy now to lock in the value and risk having to display it ironically at the funeral... or do you wait and see if it's still there when the 87yo makes it to late July?
Third... @Xian01 -- humans are very social and subject to confirmation bias that is a VERY strong aspect of all people. Everyone here and there is subject to it... it causes the formation of "cultures" (this place is a culture and hashtalk is a culture). Since hashtalk excluded differing voices for so long, the current members are very deep into their culture and into their confirmation bias. Anything that goes against that group-think is bad, like a tiger attacking the clan level bad. Had those people been on a site w/out the moderation, or had they never invested heavily into the XPY idea (also causes confirmation bias)... they might be entirely reasonable people.
So, the hashtalk.org site is a prime example that the Internet is actually enabling society to move closer to Idiocracy at a faster rate. There are plenty of other examples out there. So, my argument is that society was not this bad in the past because in the past, you talked face to face and generally, you don't get that many extreme personalities in one geographic location. But, now, I could post a "kittens are destroying the environment" forum and develop a group of people who feel that it's imperative that we destroy all felines and they would be entirely, and genuinely, bought into the idea. But, I could do that because I only need to collect a couple hundred people out of maybe 2 billion English speaking/internet accessible humans on the globe... instead of finding them in my home town.
