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This seems disingenuous. If this system wasn't making money for the people developing it, they wouldn't care at all about 'unbanked' people. Because it does, t
by Eisenstein 4y ago
This seems disingenuous. If this system wasn't making money for the people developing it, they wouldn't care at all about 'unbanked' people. Because it does, they can use that as a 'but think of the poor oppressed people' as a lever to shut up critics. It reminds me too much of 'think of the children' that gets used whenever someone criticizes a 'we want to own all the decryption keys' system or similar.
- siftrics 4y ago> If this system wasn't making money for the people developing it, they wouldn't care at all about 'unbanked' people. No, THAT seems disingenuous. I am working on crypto because I want to help these oppressed, unlucky people who are born into terrible regimes that are very hard to escape. I literally work on open source, gratis projects that do not generate any money for me.
- Eisenstein 4y agoCan you blame people for being cynical about that, though?