North Korea has leveraged cryptocurrency to evade sanctions to the tune of billions of dollars. [1] This has a material negative impact on global security.

> We already know this whole "give up your privacy for safety!" thing is nonsense, because the privacy has gone way down over the past years and safety has not changed at all.

We are roughly at one of the safest, most peaceful points in history. [2] This is in no small part due to our careful and measured efforts to balance privacy and the public good. Generally you have a right to privacy unless someone can show a good reason why you should lose that right - at least at a state level. I think this is the right balance. I think most people do too.

> It's theater, a puppet show put up in order to rob you of your essential freedom for the gratification and enrichment of another.

Citation needed. And I don't mean that glibly, if you have some data I'll happily read it.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/02/09/north...

[2] https://towardsdatascience.com/has-global-violence-declined-...