Why wouldn’t the platforms require the identity of people cashing out more than, let’s say, $10k a year to be public? Or at least, require KYC level trail to cash out so it can be investigated later.
It protects 99% of people who want to have fun by losing money and prevents insider trading at no virtually no cost.
Unrelated to this article. But somewhat related to parts of the discussion here.
One (niche) way to overcome not being able to download books from Amazon anymore is to get ebooks from a library that supports Overdrive/libby. (Some of?) Those support downloading DRM files directly from the app, which you then can run through Adobe + Calibre. Obviously, this is contingent on book availability and your ability to get a proper library card. But works for me for 90% of the books that I need.
The title says “don’t avoid politics”. Then the content says “what you think is politics is bad politics”, so instead the author suggests how to do good politics.
Let’s apply the same structure to another important area of human relations: marriage. “Don’t be in a bad marriage — here’s how a good marriage looks like”.
Sounds great as a writing exercise. Unclear how applicable it is in most of people’s real life circumstances.
It protects 99% of people who want to have fun by losing money and prevents insider trading at no virtually no cost.