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Of course this is as cryptic as can be. Hoping some good journalists can get their hands on this and start sussing things out. Will these be the panama papers o

by TSiege 4y ago

Of course this is as cryptic as can be. Hoping some good journalists can get their hands on this and start sussing things out. Will these be the panama papers of crypto? Time will tell I suppose

api 4y ago
Doesn't seem that cryptic or far fetched. Crypto has given vast amounts of unearned money to a large number of people with... lets just say issues. Nothing on this list is surprising. Money does weird things to people, but especially unearned windfall money. When people get tons of money they didn't earn in any meaningful way, they know in their heart they don't deserve it. Some people can roll with that and adopt an abundance mentality, but many will instead adopt a narcissistic posture to defend their ego. They have a need to feel special, to believe all that money makes them special and that they weren't just lucky. I think the last part explains why there's so much racism and misogyny in these communities. People will seize on things like being male, white, or having a high IQ score to explain why they must be special and deserve all that windfall money. It's not just luck, see, because they have a super high IQ and that's why they were smart enough to get in on the ground floor of this new thing. They didn't just buy a lotto ticket and win.
dewey 4y ago
Edit: I removed this comment as the child-comments made good points.
- igorkraw 4y ago
  This is an overly cynical and more importantly, verifiably wrong take https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/20161201-global-impact/ https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/20161201-g... Rant: Lazy cynicism like this does real harm, it stochastically propagates the idea that everything is shit, we can't fix anything and the only chance is to burn it all down ans start from zero. Which primes easy marks for revelation vendors like Trump, crypto etc.
- ethanbond 4y ago
  Not sure if your goal is just to discredit and discourage whistleblowers, but it’s simply not true the Panama Papers had zero influence on tax evasion. More than a billion dollars have already been recovered and remitted, good amount of indictments, lots of political backlash at various levels. If you have the ability to bring justice to the world, you should do it, even if the results are unlikely to be as significant as they should be.
- yread 4y ago
  Politicians had their houses (and luxury cars) torched because of Panama papers. This trope is tired

by TSiege 4y ago

Of course this is as cryptic as can be. Hoping some good journalists can get their hands on this and start sussing things out. Will these be the panama papers of crypto? Time will tell I suppose

api 4y ago

Doesn't seem that cryptic or far fetched. Crypto has given vast amounts of unearned money to a large number of people with... lets just say issues. Nothing on this list is surprising. Money does weird things to people, but especially unearned windfall money. When people get tons of money they didn't earn in any meaningful way, they know in their heart they don't deserve it. Some people can roll with that and adopt an abundance mentality, but many will instead adopt a narcissistic posture to defend their ego. They have a need to feel special, to believe all that money makes them special and that they weren't just lucky. I think the last part explains why there's so much racism and misogyny in these communities. People will seize on things like being male, white, or having a high IQ score to explain why they must be special and deserve all that windfall money. It's not just luck, see, because they have a super high IQ and that's why they were smart enough to get in on the ground floor of this new thing. They didn't just buy a lotto ticket and win.

dewey 4y ago

Edit: I removed this comment as the child-comments made good points.

igorkraw 4y ago
This is an overly cynical and more importantly, verifiably wrong take https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/20161201-global-impact/ https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/20161201-g... Rant: Lazy cynicism like this does real harm, it stochastically propagates the idea that everything is shit, we can't fix anything and the only chance is to burn it all down ans start from zero. Which primes easy marks for revelation vendors like Trump, crypto etc.
ethanbond 4y ago
Not sure if your goal is just to discredit and discourage whistleblowers, but it’s simply not true the Panama Papers had zero influence on tax evasion. More than a billion dollars have already been recovered and remitted, good amount of indictments, lots of political backlash at various levels. If you have the ability to bring justice to the world, you should do it, even if the results are unlikely to be as significant as they should be.
yread 4y ago
Politicians had their houses (and luxury cars) torched because of Panama papers. This trope is tired