WWKMD?, Episode 12: Marx vs. Bitcoin: What the Bearded Prophet Would Say

Imagine Karl Marx—bearded, irritated, chain-smoking—pulled into the 21st century on Discord. You tell him Bitcoin isn’t state money but math on computers; he’d squint, then ask the only questions that matter: who owns it, who controls it, and who actually profits?

He’d call out the spectacle: labor hidden, value turned into a number, profits made from speculation and energy, and trust shifted to anonymous code with no one accountable. In short, crypto doesn’t abolish exploitation—it encrypts it and sells you a lottery ticket.