A teaser in case somebody's unsure about whether they want to read it.
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”
“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”
A teaser in case somebody's unsure about whether they want to read it.
Poe’s law-is this meant to be satire? Because I honestly can’t tell. Edit: went and read the article. It’s satire. But still, I feel confident somebody, perhaps many, read that as utopia.
Poe’s law-is this meant to be satire? Because I honestly can’t tell.
Edit: went and read the article. It’s satire. But still, I feel confident somebody, perhaps many, read that as utopia.
Funny, I always knew this as a libertarian copypasta. It's even funnier now knowing it originated in the New Yorker.
A teaser in case somebody's unsure about whether they want to read it.
Poe’s law-is this meant to be satire? Because I honestly can’t tell.
Edit: went and read the article. It’s satire. But still, I feel confident somebody, perhaps many, read that as utopia.
IMO, it's pretty clearly satire... and it was published in the "Shouts & Murmurs" (Humor, Satire, and Funny Observations) section of the paper.
Mirror: https://archive.is/2yDkc