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An unfortunately apt analogy in its misogyny.

‘A billionaire offers to kill a man, proposing a price paid to his family of $1 billion dollars. The moribund man says “sure!”. “And what about if you pay me $1000 for the privilege?”. “What kind of man do you think I am?”. “We’ve already established that and are just haggling the price”’. A less misogynistic, less funny but accurate version of the joke.

Murdering criminals, we all agree on. Murdering the family man only works if he consents. It doesn’t make him hypocritical or suicidal to reject a price.

If AI and media companies treated their employees well and offered fair terms for a subscription, the advocates would probably not pirate or boycott.

Again I am not that kind of pirate and I’m pro AI, but I don’t think their views are inconsistent or anything. So anyways just my take but your stance is interesting too.

I think your argument attempts to highlight a hypocrisy where mine highlights consistency but I may be misunderstanding.

Not sure I understand your argument, nor am I talking about myself personally, but folks I’ve seen on my instance who do. Actually I’m just a privacy and Flying Spaghetti Monster piracy advocate 😅

One who photographs a painting from a Walmart and prints it in their living room, and also boycotts a News outlet who underpays their employees is not more anti-news than pro-theft. They are both boycotts equally against capitalism.

I’m sure there are also many folks who pirate immorally, like from smaller artists, or because they’re broke. But pro-piracy usually means in the boycott sense.

Hmm I still think we’re saying different things. Enabling piracy for consumers and rejecting it for big business come from the same beliefs. It’s not about piracy itself or hating AI more than liking piracy. It’s not about piracy at all but who is allowed to use it. It’s about content being controlled by the public, and not corporations. I think.

It’s the same thing. It’s about protesting against big companies that hurt workers and artists.

Just a guess. Because piracy advocacy isn’t about not paying, it’s about not supporting megacorporations and anti-artistic business models. It’s a form of protest, I suspect most advocates would buy media legally when it doesn’t feel enshittified.

They would probably also support companies that used AI but did not fire workers as a result.

Again Monero is immediately useful to many people, and so are other cryptos. You don’t have to use them and they may not be useful to you. But they are useful to others.

Seashells require face to face interaction, they weigh a lot and they are not convenient to obtain. Nor are they fungible or even anonymous. I am not convinced they are better than Monero, or that Monero has no value.

Yes, so you agree that Monero has value then, especially in countries like the US?

Source?

Wait, you guys are enjoying it? (Source: 500 hours of gameplay)

The code:

Pix sounds trivially easy to censor, freeze, or control from the government’s perspective. Unless I’m missing something that makes it easier for the government to censor innocuous NSFW content. And we don’t have anything like it in the US so it’s useless to me.

Monero can be used immediately without storing a balance for longer than a few minutes, although a correlation attack would be trivial like that. But at best it is not subject to market whims any longer than you decide is necessary for your anonymity needs. It’s the perfect case for purchasing NSFW software, where you want the purchase private and uncensored even when it’s perfectly legal. That sounds like an incredible real world value, even after the crypto bros are long gone and the value dumps (imo) 99%. But it’s a tool that needs no real world value.

Monero, a decentralized censorship proof cryptocurrency, has no real utility with regard to solving MasterCard’s censorship and only depends on a pyramid of investors to function at all? That is not my understanding.

Yes, most cryptos are treated like pump and dump scams. 99% of usage is like that. Absolutely does not change the underlying utility nor would I recommend “investing” in them.

It’s mostly used like that, but doesn’t mean it has no utility whatsoever.

Bitcoin does have some more utility based proposals but for the foreseeable future, I agree. Most cryptos are like that too.

“Cryptocurrency is only a pyramid scheme and has no real utility!”

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