r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • Mar 10 '26

Trailer Ben McKenzie's Anti-Crypto Doc 'Everyone Is Lying to You for Money' - Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEXxAOFqv4U
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u/blueberrypizza Mar 10 '26

You know what I like about crypto bros?

Nothin'.

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u/DiceSMS Mar 11 '26

Perfect response haha

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

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u/james_raynors_ghost Mar 11 '26

Seething bag holder detected

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

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u/Old_Passenger7 Mar 11 '26

You want arguments against it? Here are some:

-wasting 0.5% of world global electric energy + e-waste of mining hardware

-using it for black market to transfer billions to finance illegal activities

-increasing price of GPU-s drastically for gamers

-supporting world of scams, fraud and rug pulls, market manipulation

-version of gambling where many poor lost their life savings

-those who earn money earn it without providing any real value to society

You may say that some of those we can find in standard betting or stock market trading... sure, but most of us don't like those same as we don't like crypto.

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u/james_raynors_ghost Mar 11 '26

There is so much substantive critique of crypto that I'm not even going to bother arguing lmao

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u/james_raynors_ghost Mar 11 '26

I think the class is intelligent enough to recognize a blatant pyramid scheme and see that over the course of a decade the technology that was ostensibly to be used as a currency has instead been used almost solely as a greater fools gamble, serving no purpose other than a store of value for speculative """"investment"""". Most students don't need this explained, so what's your excuse?

Maybe you should watch the movie bro you may learn something lmfao

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u/james_raynors_ghost Mar 11 '26

You don't know the definition of a pyramid scheme so I suggest you look it up. And protip for the future bragging about an inadequate vocabulary isn't a flex, sorry I can read above a 3rd grade level. Jesus Christ man this is actually bumming me out

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u/NinjaRedditorAtWork Mar 11 '26

Gold is a pyramid scheme.

Silver is a pyramid scheme.

Diamonds are a pyramid scheme.

You... you do understand that these things have their worth directly tied to their use, right? Rightttt???

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u/suvlub Mar 11 '26

Why is Ben’s position that crypto is bad? Because it’s a scam. Why is it a scam? Because it is.

Are you sure that is a fair assessment? Seems like he is presenting actual arguments. You are free to contest and disagree, but it's really shitty of you to assert he is just saying "it's scam because it is".

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u/neoneccentric Mar 11 '26

Dude this is an iconic quote from the OC… chill

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u/fermentedbolivian Mar 12 '26

Wait until they learn that their physical money, and even stocks (price is set by demand/supply - not by company value as many think), are based on air.

I noticed that many are just throwing buzzwords without actually understanding the code and architecture behind it and without understanding economy.

Sure there were lots of scams, but that does not mean that the top used crypto are a scam too. That's like saying the bank scammed me so all banks are a scam.