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> seems way easier than just deciding to solve it with crypto Yeah, I don't disagree that crypto won't fix this. I just disagreed that it was "easy". I took them as being literal.

I thought it was a fair summary, but I can also see how someone would arrive at your conclusion. I read it as minimizing, but you make a fair point.

You dilute the meaning of the word at that point. Weapons are specific tools that are used with intent to cause harm. If something happens to cause harm without intent, and you def…

> You make a law that everyone must be served by the banks. Easy. This is the one I'm specifically discussing, its from a different user. This is the line that started the thread. …

> When you deliberate misquote someone Yeah, I'm done with this. I told you my objective was to summarize, you have decided I'm maliciously twisting someone's words. I'm not. I've …

> That's a pretty American, libertarian take. I'm not American. This take tends to come out of countries where the government has strayed away from its objective of serving the peo…

The initial discussion started with someone saying something to the effect of "just change the law, easy". To me, that reads as "just use the government, it'll be fine". Perhaps it…

I definitely think laws can do what you say. But I think that's not always what happens. What I object to is really more specifically how the gist is "change the laws, its an easy …

> You make a law that everyone must be served by the banks. Easy. Here is the "just pass a law" line. I've summarized a line that makes this exact point. I see no straw-men here. C…

Sotheby's is already selling them. That to me indicates they're here to stay, for better or for worse.

Right, but you're taking my comment out of context here. The point I'm making is that dismissing Crypto for this reason makes little sense.

I'd agree that a rotten shark in a tank has more substance to it than an NFT. Shame it's in embalming fluid. You could eat it if you fall on hard times otherwise.

I'm not sure how the advice of "just pass a law" is anything other than blind trust. If you didn't think I was advocating crypto, then what purpose does: > And crypto isn't dominat…

Did I say that? I explicitly say in multiple places that I'm not advocating for crypto, just asking people to not put the blind trust into their government "just passing a law". It…

That's how I think we should!

Not suggesting we replace the banking, just pointing out how this path you suggest is still not going to be an easy fix. There's no easy fix. Again, not advocating for crypto as a …

> It's not only being used by the corruption, it is itself rotten. And neither does some of it look nice on walls. So is the contemporary art world. The contemporary art world is v…

> On the other hand, what would the world look like without democratic governments Nobody here is advocating against democracy. People are just pointing out that blind trust in sta…

> x is better than the alternative y. I don't know what y is. They didn't propose replacing democracy.

I'm not advocating for crypto. I'm advocating against blind trust in the government to "pass a law" and fix it.

Except that's not what I'm saying at all. What I'm saying is: 1. Bad laws got us into this place 2. There's a lot of inertia in government 3. There's a lot of stake holders in gove…

> Our current method of "fixing" failures of the state involves layering more and more legislation and regulation on top of the broken legislation and regulation. The UK is the per…

I'm not advocating crypto here, I'm just pointing out that saying crypto is bad because you can "just pass a law" is just as illogical as saying "internet blockchain money will giv…

> There are no hall monitors here, and there's also no magic wand. Right, and saying "just pass a law" is asking the hall monitors to wave a wand.