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Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by Idiot_in_Vain on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:45AM (#35539553)
Who needs privacy? Drug dealers and scam artists...

Crypto solves (to a degree) the problem of a huge amoount of power belonging to the few people who run the financial system. Huge consentration of power is not a good thing. Power corrupts and so on. Crypto puts everyone on equal footing - rather than say the people/companies who have a banking license enjoying an unfair advantage over everyone else (like the power to create money from thin air in the fractional reserve system).

The credit card companies, PayPal and the like get to decide which companies are worthy to exist and which not. If they don't like a business, they can just cut them off from receiving money. E.g. VPN provides who don't keep logs are all banned from receiving credit/debit card payment, PayPal, etc. - they have to resort to receiving cash by post and crypto.

Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by dsr_ on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:01AM (#35539801)
That's an awful lot of workaround to solve the social problem of "my regulatory agencies aren't regulating well enough" -- a problem which will still exist afterwards.
Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by sowbug on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:44AM (#35541664)
It's not to solve that problem. It's to have the option to route around it.
Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by dsr_ on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:22PM (#35542236)
Re:Mass Layoffs and Absentee Bosses Create a Morale Crisis a... by sowbug on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:43PM (#35545641)
Fraud existed long before digital currencies, and nobody is seriously advocating to legitimize it.

I hope that even if you love the current financial system, you'd still be in favor of giving its competitors a chance to exist.