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Steam basket in pressure cooker for seven to ten minutes.

But you're not framing the issue properly. Money can't both cause and enable greed if greed preexists money. Getting rid of money might expose other contributing factors, but it can't possibly eliminate greed.

Corruption can and does exist in the absence of money because corruption is the peddling of favorable treatment or benefits.

Barter systems can also be corrupted.

Packard? That dude's too dead to appreciate your thread.

Nuh uh. Lol

Somehow, I just assumed you were always cougar bait.

Tsar, it’s not a shriveled dick measuring contest every time I mention “old”…

People are always fascinated when old people smoke weed.

You should. Ivan won't be able to rest until you do.

Do lots of running. Aimless running.

I'm by no means suggesting it has a neutral effect. Expanding currency markets isn't so much an innovation as it is an inevitability. While not completely square, the creation of the Federal Reserve System offers some analogous parallels. Creating a single system ostensibly gave the US Government the platform to directly guide capital distribution (a reaction to the string of smaller economic depressions leading up to the turn-of-the-century); in the process, it also freed up a capital to places where it was not previously accessible and that persist to this day. In reality, the impetus for Congress to create the Federal Reserve was the fact that burgeoning markets fueled by the industrial revolution needed more capital than regional banks could reliably provide. Leading up to Black Monday, however, it was also increasingly clear that a steady, reliable flow of capital needed to have a robust controls to prevent it from being misdirected to catastrophic consequences. The point is that the Reserve didn't come into existence in a vacuum. It addressed a financial constriction in the same way, crypto and NFTs address a future where fiat currency and physical property instruments aren't plentiful enough. Ultimately, crypto and NFTs are going to be used by businesses as a way of gathering resources, either as a stable place to store reserves or as a way of building collateral to finance operations. On the one hand, you can't restrict them as implements without restricting the economic engine that business will potentially provides (like jobs, infrastructural investment, tax base). On the other hand, you can't allow the implements to be used without difference to their ability to fuel inflation or serve as depletion to that same tax base (as a tax shelter, for instance). As was eventually the case with the Federal Reserve, the government has to also build up back end controls while seeking to open crypto and NFT markets to everyone.

The dirty energy issue aside, why isn't it?

RIP NO, they weren't.

No mention of Animal House?

Mermista is an excellent choice.

You had a Kurenai avatar for like the longest time.

It’s too early to tell for sure what will be learned, but the PRC’s early adoption of a cryptocurrency will no doubt offer a test case for other governments seeking to harness its potential and reign in speculators.

Crypto / NFTs don't address problems with wealth distribution and a heavily top loaded economy. NFTs do, in theory, offer an alternative to speculative land grabbing, and, in the long run, they might make it easier for governments to start heavily taxing land purchases and/or enact more strict rent stabilization policies. That might be a bit beyond our scope at this point, though, since digital currency isn't regulated sufficiently to make it secure or a reliable source of revenue stream for governments.

To add to what Sawdy already (rather concisely) said, NFTs are a natural progression of digital currency. Just as inherent limitations to physical currency create the need for crypto currencies, NFTs expand financial instrumentation beyond the finite amount of physical property (land, art, vehicles, etc). We may not be to the point where wealth building is being critically restricted, but the ability of traditional currency (backed by a country's central bank) to expand isn't limitless.

Oh.. you're in one of your moods. Cool, I'll give you your space.

Yes, I do know how maps work, thank you.

Lol. Are you saying you and TOG are psychopaths? I actually live more or less 250 from Doom, and I would invite that dude.