Re:Expanding access to the future of work with crypto payouts
by colesantiago on Friday September 23, 2022 @12:18AM
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At least cash is accepted everywhere in domestic countries, and even it's online it's card. Crypto isn't widely accepted or even used as a form of payment in the real world and has no useful legitimate usecase. We don't need more unregulated tokens that have no intrinsic value other than speculation, gambling and fraud.
Sure we have issues in the current financial system, but augmenting (and dare I say) replacing it with an entirely worse unregulated system which loses people money through scams, increases and emboldens ransomware and exposes people to huge volatility is not the way to go.
> The argument is engaging in "everything is X" talk by blanketing an entire space as only engaging in negative impacts.
The negative impacts are FAR greater than the positive impacts of crypto.
Sure we have issues in the current financial system, but augmenting (and dare I say) replacing it with an entirely worse unregulated system which loses people money through scams, increases and emboldens ransomware and exposes people to huge volatility is not the way to go.
> The argument is engaging in "everything is X" talk by blanketing an entire space as only engaging in negative impacts.
The negative impacts are FAR greater than the positive impacts of crypto.