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Political solutions are often messy and complex. Pragmatic fixes are rarely obvious and overreaches are common. Reforms are ongoing. Conversely, absolutists hav
by palmfacehn 1y ago
Political solutions are often messy and complex. Pragmatic fixes are rarely obvious and overreaches are common. Reforms are ongoing. Conversely, absolutists have no use for nuance.
The war on cash is a good example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
https://ij.org/federal-court-rules-in-favor-of-convenience-store-owner/ https://ij.org/federal-court-rules-in-favor-of-convenience-s...
- Arainach 1y agoSomething being imperfect doesn't mean that getting rid of it is an improvement. Should civil forfeiture be heavily reformed, and is it being obviously abused? Yes. Is the ability to use cryptocurrency to bypass sanctions, fund oppressive regimes, drive criminal empires, and power a new generation of scams a much worse problem? Absolutely. Proponents of a system explicitly designed to enable financial fraud shocked when governments apply fraud rules to them, news at 11.
- immibis 1y agoThe ability of money to deice criminal empires is a problem. Abolish money.