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It will put a stop to leeches, stealing from the productive population.

Yes. It was.

> When folks want to dump Tether, they generally cannot dump it directly into dollars. They have to dump to Bitcoin, move it off-exchange, and then sell the dollars on an exchange …

Not only that, there are and were multiple ways of installing software in Linux, both back in 2000 and now. Notoriously ./autogen.sh && make && make install wasn't mentioned but in…

Seems like no one fell for this though. https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1ES14c7qLb5CYhLMUekct...

You might benefit from reading Eric Horst's Maximum Climbing [0]; it covers precisely this just-pull-harder mentality and provides exercises to unlock it. [0]: https://www.amazon.c…

> most of them don't have a good quality of life What does that even mean? Are you implying most of “them” (whatever that might be) are lives not worth living thus “we” should put …

why stop there? If we’d go back to the Stone Age the climate change problem would solve itself within 100 years. If CO2 weren’t bad for the environment the climate change problem w…

Not OP, just curious why this is being downvoted? Seems like a legitimate argument, would rather like to see the counterargument of the downvoters.

Not OP, but OP's point stands. If they can get special treatment, someone else's might be able to. The fact that it's a possibility means they must use it or risk being at a compet…

> People do not have to be mindless money maximizers. No. They don't. Companies do. To a degree, they DO have a fiduciary duty to maximize profit over the long haul; if Amazon didn…

Looking beyond the clickbait-y headline, I think the article takes issue with the use of this technology by government, which fits perfectly well with a Libertarian POV.