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mircea_popescu: well, depends what your standards for "speaking english" are.
mircea_popescu: "please believe us when we say the shit we sell you is worth buying"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves because it's broken ? i dunno, just my guess.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell nubbins` maybe tshirts with "A loser is You!"
mircea_popescu: plenty of people trying to make a career out of doing the wrong thing.
mircea_popescu: much like a singer won't win if they're good. they must suck to win, in order to "represent" the idiots watching at home.
mircea_popescu: a large part of the entire "start-up success" fantasy by now is specifically NOT having any sort of technical merit or actual value
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves somehow this discussion is a strange rehash of the older "platinum records / musical talent" thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol the saga of bad crypto never ends does it.
mircea_popescu: well then you should hold on to it and spend a year or so reading.
mircea_popescu: artifexd i suppose that's the one thing that has never happened yet.
mircea_popescu: third parties can also shoot you and bury you in the river.
mircea_popescu: you may actually force him over a threshold, with results so far out of proportion he might as well just shoot you and bury you in hudson river.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the one who opts out is more expensive to him.
mircea_popescu: lol. someone should point out to the sperm seller the precedent re paying for child support.
mircea_popescu: so no, participation in the us chumpatron is voluntary in the sense participation in the communist party was voluntary.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform very theoretically. in the sense you're theoretically welcome to shoot the president.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, but contractors aren't physical persons, they're legal persons, and that rule does exist.
mircea_popescu: pending you prove that you have a "legitimate reason" and in any case you face prosecution under the "trying to avoid prosecution for using your own money" laws.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the fuss will be that on the third time yo udo it your house will be confiscated,
mircea_popescu: in any case any qty of cash will be confiscated by govt agents on sight
mircea_popescu: and keep it at home, i'll be in violation of the "corps must keep their funds i na bank" rule.
mircea_popescu: if i hire someone to go take money out every day for a year, 300 bucks at a time,
mircea_popescu: they then proceed me to tell me that they can pay some, but can't tell me how much.
mircea_popescu: let's run some scenarios. i am a contractor, working for you. you write me a check for 100k.
mircea_popescu: you're allowed except you're not and if you do we fuck you up ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so then what part of "not allowed" don't you follow ?
mircea_popescu: on the other hand because you're not rlegally allowed to make withdrawals.
mircea_popescu: on one hand because you are legally required to keep your money in the bank
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but yes they do. suppose you work for company x.
mircea_popescu: i guess im the only privileged asshole here, i never did anything to eat.
mircea_popescu: it's just that it makes no sense for you to keep virtual benjamins if you do nothing in the bezzle.
mircea_popescu: like you know, some people don't wear dockers, because they're not social justice warriors, the women they fuck don't even know what dockers are, etc.
mircea_popescu: nope. it's mostly because they are not part of that world.
mircea_popescu: about 200mn of us citizens live in the fictitious world of bezzle. they never use cash for anything. about 50mn us citizens live in the real economy, they mostly use tide for currency, but at the fringe there's this exchange of people who work for the fictitious economy,
mircea_popescu: "If your employer offers you insurance that doesn’t provide free ella, or anything else on the list of “preventive services”—as defined by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and ultimately by Obama—then it’s subject to a fine of $36,500 a year. But if your employer doesn’t offer you insurance at all, it’s subject to a fine of $2,000 a year. "