TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth $70M

Re:TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it... by dfilppi on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:26AM (#26969729)

This technique is the basis for politics

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Re:TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it... by javajosh on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:44AM (#26969942)

There is a reason why virtually 100% of Congress are lawyers. (Not sure where to look up the stats on that, though.)

Edit: I was wrong. It's "only" ~50% of Congress, assuming the numbers are roughly the same since 2016. source: https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2016/6/30/12068490/too-many-la... That's still a huge number, compared to the % of general population who are lawyers. In the US there are 1.4M lawyers; if the pop is 350M then they are 0.4% of the population - and a much smaller fraction of the adult working population (roughly .02%).

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Re:TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it... by ameister14 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:57PM (#26972158)

>There is a reason why virtually 100% of Congress are lawyers.

Yeah, I mean - there's a reason people that write software are mostly engineers.

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Re:TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it... by zuminator on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:15AM (#26970331)

I was with you til the last sentence. The adult working population is about half of the total population, so approx 0.8% are lawyers, not 0.2%, and certainly not 0.02%.

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