This post is taking part in the Lens x Kiwi Writing Contest
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It has been years since we started living on the chains, after the first arrivals who mines and builds on the wild lands.
Great Vitalik has insights about our new continent. yet some hidden secrets still not to be spoken and explained. Surely Vitalik has somethings more important to finish thus here is my part to do so.
For the big picture, rarely people mentioned, though we trying so hard to avoid 50% attack and centralization. The relation between Satoshi and Bitcoin, Vitalik and Etherem, Jesse Pollak and Base, flexibly repeated the structure of capital and corporations. The leading heros are almost a boundary and lighthouse for a on chain ecosystem, till the chain itself gathered enough faith or just gone with the leading party someday. But even with great power we unite, the capital still hold the chain in hand, or should I say, have the chain world as a whole, as a unity they have already forged long time ago.
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More or less, the protocol designers and token economists did trying to control and find a balance for local users and foreign investments, still everything on web3 highly affected by the biggest whole itself. The power of market and Alphas. For once you enter the market, it rules. And the capital owners serve their money as a league for a highest profit as possible.
As Vitalik pointed L2 subcultures as a meaningful subject in crypto world for the first time. We could see that the system is granting ideology (culture symbols set) to divided and professionalization workers/employees. This is not just something called tribalism but the market systematically managing us swarm by swarm.
The market itself does not care about our fates but manipulating our production relations unconsciously.
By its way we alternatively become atoms and lose our power as a whole.(As the stuff we created become a whole and against us) With this occupation, we rarely find another way to form a more anti-risky collective.
Why the first time revealing this matters? For distributing culture symbols to weave the observed/seeing world of everyone which sheltered us from the past history, possible liberating future and the cruel Real. The revealing means also the system itself understood how these tricky stuff in our mind works and it just using them to fill what the capital and capitalism desire and need.(For they are the master)
With the soft implants distributed to workers. They would easily getting used to another project on L2, another L2 on ETH. As they are shared laborer of the market and being given up at periods like bear.
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Now we see that the fate of ETH connects with Vitalik. And once the pioneers faded, the machine as a whole wields by the capital, loses its hand of guidance to the dreams.
Everything on it will naturely comes to fit its given position. The details are, market nowadays would initiate technicians (skillful workers) across the world, while the skills are planted on local industry. It means the world market is permanently changed and deployed its self again as a repeated structure on chain, socials financials and so on and so on, grows themselves on the new land. The big whales stretches its tentacles after a path where consumers consume is discovered. Forming a new economic order and shape the old one as they are the same thing. In the constantly changing fields people dragged into and thrown away busy in finding their own value and meaning forgot the only way is to create one not to find one.
Under such a situation, one way out is to build even more, build the ecosystem, the culture, the collective which won’t be paid by the market yet would be needed for the next generations. In preparation for this, those who have the spare strength should not only inherit the spirit and experience of warriors like Vitalik but also share them with people around, form the countless small collectives for only one goal which is to expand the human future. In such a chain of willing people, we help each other and work together to withstand crises, rather than falling apart in the face of cyclical shocks until we create an era that has never been seen before.
