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This reads like parody.
I honestly cant tell if this is parody or not.
Siskind dug his own grave here, and the NYT has done his patients a huge service.
Its undeniable that the proportion of criminals among cryptocurrency enthusiasts is far higher than in the population at large. I don't see how its unkind or bigoted to point that out.
Because it was built to be a fascist recruitment channel, and the talk of 'free speech' is just a smoke screen that they don't care about at all.
While not a direct answer to your question, I think The Location of Culture by Homi Bhabha is relevant in the sense that it addresses why your question is difficult (perhaps impossible) to answer.
- Eat Right - actually cheaper than eating unhealthy
- Exercise Often - possible to do free
- Groom regularly - very cheap, the cost of a haircut every couple of months
- Develop a personality - free
- Cultivate relationships - free
I prefer to live in a society that doesn't execute non-violent drug dealers.
Frankly, I'd expect any CS student at a decent university to be able to parse that page fairly easily.
This 'argument' always just seems to be a thinly veiled excuse to avoid putting in the bare minimum effort required to understand a complicated topic.
Where do all these nonsense memes about the 2008 crash come from?
If one of your examples is a charity fraud scheme masquerading as a crypto-currency start-up [0], I'm not sure you have a very good argument.
According to their SEC filings Tesla spends tens of millions of dollars per quarter on marketing costs. Where does the idea that they spend zero on advertising come from?
TSLA stated five years ago that Musk's twitter is an official source of information regarding the company.