# Ed Zitron - Solutions That Create Problems (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article4.6bc1851654a0.png) ## Metadata **Cover**:: https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article4.6bc1851654a0.png **Source**:: #from/readwise **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Ed Zitron]] **Full Title**:: Solutions That Create Problems **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [ez.substack.com](https://ez.substack.com/p/solutions-that-create-problems) **Host**:: [[ez.substack.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2022-03-19]] **Created**:: [[2022-09-26]] ## Highlights - The cryptocurrency industry has proven only that there is a hunger for the chance to generate wealth, masked by a parade of multi-billionaires trumpeting wonky concepts as the future of society. - As I’ve said, the unique challenge here is that there is lots of money and activity in something that is quite clearly bad. - The alarming conflation too many members of the media are making is that so many people couldn’t possibly be wrong, and thus there is validity to be found if they just believe enough. - a cryptocurrency does not have to be “good” to be worth something, it simply has to have some level of viral appeal mixed with the right market manipulators buying into it.