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Somehow the government has brainwashed almost everyone into thinking that money laundering is wrong and evil. Money laundering should not actually be a crime. M
by OutOfHere 3y ago
Somehow the government has brainwashed almost everyone into thinking that money laundering is wrong and evil. Money laundering should not actually be a crime. Moving money should not be called laundering at all. It is a victimless action. Money is personal property, and one should be free to send or receive it. It is a fundamental right that the world hasn't woken up to yet, but what would we expect in a country that still practices forced slave labor of a million people in prison. If the money were to be used to perform criminal actions where there is a victim, then those criminal actions are crimes instead. Money laundering is about state power, about the state having the right to exploit people's lives. The same people who believe in the concept of money laundering will also take away your right to other freedoms, e.g. encryption/AI dev/access/usage, and basically anything that gives you any bit of power. Disclaimer: I have no financial interest; my only interest is in the purity of freedom.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Moving money should not be called laundering at all Moving money--or even obfuscating it--isn't a crime. It's a crime to conceal the source of illegally-obtained money. > if the money were to be used to perform criminal actions where there is a victim, then those criminal actions are crimes instead They are. But they also create an additional crime because money laundering helps criminality scale. (Petty crooks don't launder their money.)
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- s1artibartfast 3y agoputting aside morality, much of the law in the US conforms to that bar. See backpage, Megaupload, silkroad, ect.