i keep giving you metrics and you say "they're not really metrics" so of course you would say that.

so you ignored the other two i mentioned mr infinite knowall? i guess you cede to me that i am correct.

you may not know this, but speculation is a key financial metric, especially for currencies. uou could also tie inflation to mining rewards and interest to proof of staking rewards.

>same thing that drives all other commodities. speculation, not underlying value. hard pill to accept to you luddites, but believe it or not, people SPECULATE on things, and that drives prices up or down. nothing else. any real world value is tied into the speculation, but it is still speculation nonetheless.

well then, enjoy spending your hard earned cash for those "services" provided by the financial industry. it's hilarious to think rich, fat bankers deserve the money they get, but to each their own.

>Compare to crypto which costs a lot of hardware and power to "produce" and manage. And all we get is this digital proxy for the USD with some fees taken out by the crypto lords for the conversion to/from USD. So the moment you buy crypto with a national currency you already lost.

I propose to you, that the salaries, the buildings, the sheer footprint of the visa, mastercard, the financial institutions on a whole are MULTIPLE TIMES GREATER in terms of economic and environmental impact than anything the blockchain is requiring. throw in the fact it's moving to proof of staking, which is 99.99% more efficient in terms of power, you have not a leg to stand on.

Fractional reserve banking is the concept of lending institutions creating money from literal thin air, as they only require 1/10th of the money to back a loan. And need necessitates demand, as there are many products online that you simply can't buy with regular cash. The need is more important than the backing, as all people need is a fair exchange.

yup. after some 4+ crypto crashes, each rise afterward was higher than the previous.

been hearing this refrain since 2014, it's hilarious. on a long enough timeline, empires collapse and hell probably the financial stock market in general, let's call those a ponzi scheme, output exceeds input amirite!

>Is the job you need done getting done and if not is failing on a reasonable curve relative to her peers and the obstacles which have been reported? Those other factors don't really matter, results matter.

I agree. and in this particular case, according to the OP, "Reach said it installed employee-tracking software called TimeCampon Besse's work laptop after it found her assigned files were over budget and behind schedule, a strategy companies are increasingly taking in the era of remote work."

so, her assignments are behind schedule, she was getting an advance, her stuff was over budget, and the tracking software confirmed this.

So largely i agree with everything you said. However, this is a very judicious use of the tracking software, in this case. She can get fucked with fees, because she was stealing company time, and her work ethic + tracking software confirmed it.

and if they're....working at another place? clocking in twice? are they still productive? how about 3, 4? at what point do you go "wtf m8", especially if this lady received a advance from the company?

>What else would they be doing?

netflix. facebook. porn.

can you run crysis though?

let the anti crypto bros salt flow. looking at these comments, such salty fuckers. after spamming anti crypto memes for how long? (and simply replying to them disagreeing completely tanked my karma, thanks guys) then denying the deal would ever go through, and now it went through.... it's very satisfying to see. i'm going to wait a year and come back to this thread, just so i can laugh at these sad fucks. have a great saturday guys :)

he can make that simply from his holdings of dogecoin and it's massive spike from simply integrating it with twitter. done. he has a NFT marketplace going up on twitter. and of course, think of the *REDACTED *

it's interesting how little you value a platform for free speech. and yet here you are, spouting off your thoughts. I would think you would value social media more?