• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Easier to take bribes with crypto. I still stand by this being a huge factor in reduced accountability and accelerating corruption.

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      3 hours ago

      I still stand by this being a huge factor in reduced accountability and accelerating corruption innovation of capitalism.

      Corruption succeeds within a corrupt system.

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        3 hours ago

        Personally I’m partial to believing that capitalism is like a nuclear reactor; can be good, can be bad. Needs sophisticated control rods to maintain stability and prevent it from getting out of control.

        Nordic model nations in a nutshell who are realized not idealized models for some of the happiest and most stable nations on the world.

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      10 hours ago

      My conspiracy theory is that BTC took off because Russia used as a tool to avoid sanctions. If you look at a chart the timeline matches up and they have had sizeable crypto holdings.

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        10 hours ago

        Oh 100% agreed. Also no surprise that the likes of Musk and Russia have heavily promoted, defended, and relied upon encrypted communications like Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, etc.