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This was very obviously written with ChatGPT. The structure, emojis, emdashes and contrasting sentences. Surprised nobody is calling it out. IMO save us time and just give us the original short version you wrote to ChatGPT
"Their answer?" I absolutely loathe gpt's structure
Back in early 2022, a little after the war started, TransferWise blocked transfer (i.e. donation) to the account run by the National Bank of Ukraine for support of the Ukrainian military. I have and never will forgive them for this.
> I have and never will forgive them for this. Ukraine is well known money laundering machine. Before the conflict started it was a well known fact and many banks didn't want to work with transfers to Ukraine. I am sure TransferWise shared similar risk model.
But if you look at the bigger picture, Ukraine has been invaded and occupied by a bigger countries which buys western banks to do it's money laundering through. Now is not the time to be discipling.
Justice is more than just following laws.
Back in early 2022, a little after the war started, TransferWise blocked transfer (i.e. donation) to the account run by the National Bank of Ukraine for support of the Ukrainian military. I have and never will forgive them for this.
> I have and never will forgive them for this. Ukraine is well known money laundering machine. Before the conflict started it was a well known fact and many banks didn't want to work with transfers to Ukraine. I am sure TransferWise shared similar risk model.
Transfers to other accounts were still possible.
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"Their answer?" I absolutely loathe gpt's structure
I don't know the name of this rhetorical device, but I assure you it that using it is older than gpt
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There was a time when the general consensus was that treating customers well would result in greater retention, which, in turn, would ultimately prove to be net positive profit-wise over time. It seems like that changed somewhere around the turn of the century, whereby businesses started to decide that it was better to cut down on customer service, and in some cases, go so far as to ban customers. The first cases of…
It did "math out" because these industries heavily lobbied and regulated that starting an alternative is close to impossible. Think about Wise: How many companies out there have the same service? The closest are Revolut and Airwallex. So in a world of 8 billion people and millions of businesses, there are only 3 companies that do the same thing that Wise do. In comparison, there are thousands of banks around the worl…
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> I have and never will forgive them for this. Ukraine is well known money laundering machine. Before the conflict started it was a well known fact and many banks didn't want to work with transfers to Ukraine. I am sure TransferWise shared similar risk model.
Everything you say might be technically true. But if you look at the bigger picture, Ukraine has been invaded and occupied by a bigger countries which buys western banks to do it's money laundering through. Now is not the time to be discipling. Justice is more than just following laws.
>A bit more back and forth… then the call was disconnected. who disconnected it? were you yelling at support? this seems relevant and you just put "yadda yadda... the call was disconnected" (not to defend Wise, just curious what happened there) >This isn’t just poor service — it’s unacceptable. meaningless LLM-addendums don't improve your blogpost
I've been on calls where it was 30 minute waiting to get answered, you ask for what you need, they put you on hold (or 'transfer' you), then the call drops. They don't ring back.
Telecoms companies in UK seem to have the worst communications, terrible line quality on support calls. I just assume people then don't complain because it's so hard to. The ombudsman is next to useless - you have to be without service for something like 6 weeks before they'll get out of bed.
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The only real solution (that many people here in HN hate?) is crypto. USDT/USDC on Eth or Solana and rails to the old systems are much better now. If you are really paranoid (USDT/USDC have a blacklist functionality), then hold Bitcoin and open a derivative short essentially creating a synthetic USD. Bitcoin doesn't have a blacklist functionality and you can use lightning for full anonymity.
> then hold Bitcoin and open a derivative short essentially creating a synthetic USD Huh that's a pretty interesting idea. I guess the downside is you need enough margin to cover the short.
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Everything you say might be technically true. But if you look at the bigger picture, Ukraine has been invaded and occupied by a bigger countries which buys western banks to do it's money laundering through. Now is not the time to be discipling. Justice is more than just following laws.
Yes, but that's a matter to be settled in a court. Banks and other financial institutions have no business deciding what's just; they just follow the regulations given to them by governments and the courts.
In the circumstances of early 2022, I would have expected a way to be found, in the knowledge that such an action - telescope held to blind eye - would be condoned.
This was very obviously written with ChatGPT. The structure, emojis, emdashes and contrasting sentences. Surprised nobody is calling it out. IMO save us time and just give us the original short version you wrote to ChatGPT