token anxiety

This post is receeding from the concerns about "token anxiety," about the addiction to tokens. This post is about work culture & late capitalism anxiety, about possible pressures & systems society might impose.

"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name | Hacker News 2026

if you suffer from token anxiety, you have a gambling addiction. I'm sorry that it's not being formally treated as such, but you can take some solace in the fact that novel forms of gambling often take time to be recognized6.

"token anxiety"; or, a slot machine by any other name 2026

the culture of silicon valley has bred a narcissism where a lot of folks think they can use agents to become the architects of a future society when, respectfully, they‘re becoming useful idiots to the billionair/trillionaire ai class and i think “token anxiety” is the gut realizing that.

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