41 sats \ 1 reply \ @tomlaies 16 Dec 2023 \ on: I am trapped with a shitcoiner... bitcoin
His mind is completely preoccupied with shitcoins and nfts, and he is constantly trying to bring it up and make me watch videos of that nonsense. (Even if I were interested, I'm barely scraping by, so I won't be investing in anyone's vaporware anytime soon) He's stares at his phone (flipping through shitcoin prices) more than my teenager on instagram.
He just unironically needs to touch grass. Getting sucked in into incoherent logic is like a brain disease. It can be cured tho. He needs to spend time offline. Go outside into nature. Maybe spend an afternoon cooking and eating with his grandma or something. Once he comes down to earth it's like waking up from a hypnosis that "get rich quick" schemes don't exist and that the economy isn't a game that can be circumvented with some nft shitcoin.
and is now trapped in a victim mentality where everything he says is pure whining, anger, lashing out, or some combination thereof.
Exactly. It's exactly that. The thoughts of self-victimization are like a drug. Like a hypnosis. For a certain kind of person this whining/anger is simultaneously comforting and self destructive.
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undergotten OP 16 Dec 2023
It's very sad. I've been an empathetic ear to the guy so far, and have tried not to provoke him, but it's like walking on eggshells. Boss recently told him he can bring his dog to work with him, so hopefully that will calm him down. I think the dangling carrot of Celsius potentially giving the money back is what's really got him on edge. False hope.
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