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>>hugoda+(OP)
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

>>indian+WG
So why didn't this happen with electricity, water and food, but would with thinking capacity?

>>chii+ve1
It did. Look around you.

>>adastr+rg1
Having to pay for utilities you mean?

>>Scrape+bs1
No, being beholden to a payments and banking system that can cancel you at any time, for any reason, with little hope for redress.

>>crypto+Yz1
Because in the past you weren't beholden to payments?

>>Stefan+NB1
That you can't transfer large sum of money because money laundering rule. and you can't break it into smaller pieces either because that is called "structuring" and is a crime?

>>j16sdi+jD1
> you can't transfer large sum of money because money laundering rule

when did that happen? I can transfer as large an amount, provided i can prove the providence of said money wasn't from crime.

>>chii+yF4
He is meaning “money” = cash, and in practice he is correct. The mere possession of large amount of cash is a crime - a crime charged against the money itself in a bizarre twist of the law to end run constitutional concerns - and one which year by year it is getting harder to fight.