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There is plenty of trafficking out there even in countries where it is legal.
This was just on hacker news today:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jun/22/t...
Both MIT and Harvard have admitted to helping Jeffrey Epstein avoid prosecution on federal racketeering charges for the sex-trafficking of minors after they were exposed by whistle-blowers at both of these institutions.
I'm still not sure why people consider it appropriate to exclude someone like Stallman from serving on the Board of the FSF while continuing to allow Mr. Rafael Reif, for example, to remain president of MIT after sending a personally signed "thank-you note" to one of the most notorious alleged sex-traffickers and convicted child-rapists in US history:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2020/01/12/after-epstei...
Nor would it be any more appropriate to allow Mr. Seth Lloyd back onto the MIT campus with just a slap on the wrist:
https://thetech.com/2021/02/25/mit-administration-epstein-op...
Or Mr. Martin Nowak for that matter either:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/26/metro/harvard-sanctio...
This hacker news thread on Nowak is worth reading again:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25442060
So why has nobody drafted petitions to cancel Rafael "Thank You So Much Mr. Epstein -- And Don't Forget to Show My Letter to Federal Prosecutors" Reif, Benedict "Epstein is an Ideal Donor for Harvard" Gross, Alan "Dershbag" Dershowitz, Martin "Punishment Serves No Noble Purpose" Nowak, Steven "Using the Internet to Entice a Minor into Prostition is A-Okay" Pinker, Seth "So What If I Make Female Undergraduates at MIT Feel Uncomfortable "Lloyd, Neri "Epstein was Always a Reliable Supporter of Israel" Oxman, Frank "I Never Saw any Girls that were Underage" Wilczek, and all of the other pedophilia-tolerating two-faced phonies that attended EDGE Foundation dinners hosted by the convicted child rapist and/or visited him on "Pedophile Isle," where FBI reportedly found instruction manuals that Mr. Epstein had ordered on Amazon that describe how to create a so-called "sex slave," in addition to video tapes containing child pornography that he allegedly recorded using secret cameras that were installed throughout his various residences?
Stallman blaming his "being on the spectrum" for all of the troubling statements cataloged on the website cited below may not entirely excuse Mr. Stallman for making them since there is no evidence that someone on the spectrum is more likely than the general population to hold similar views on child rape:
https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
But the most important question today that Mr. Stallman needs to address directly, because many of his critics on this issue continue to hold him in the highest regard for his role in advancing the free software movement, is a very frank one:
Were his remarks in support of pedophilia designed to persuade Mr. Epstein to donate part of his $500 million estate to the Free Software Foundation, much like he observed role-models such as MIT president Rafael Reif do for Mr. Epstein when Dr. Reif sent Mr. Epstein a personally signed thank-you note for his donation to the Media Lab, or colleagues like Martin Nowak do for Mr. Epstein when Dr. Nowak created a web page on a university website and an office in his department for a convicted child-rapist in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in donations that were promised to his academic program at Harvard and hundreds of millions of dollars in donations, often laundered through Epstein's fellow billionaire pedophile friends like Les Wexner, Glenn Dubin, and Leon Black, to Harvard University, where Mr. Nowak is a professor?
I'm not entirely convinced by the naysayers on this one yet, but Stallman is most deserving of forgiveness thus far, and not because of his autism, but rather because of all of his contributions to free software in spite of it.
Some of the other dogs cited above deserve to spend time in the same jail cell where Epstein killed himself because he was too much of a coward to stand trial for all of the crimes that he knew he had committed.
Best open source alternative?
The evidence at this time is largely circumstantial:
i) Mr. Stallman's job was to raise money for the FSF.
ii) Mr. Stallman's friend and possible mentor was accused of sexual misconduct involving an underage girl who was allegedly being trafficked by Mr. Epstein on "Pedophile Isle."
iii) Mr. Stallman's statements appear more designed to justify and rationalize Mr. Epstein's sexual abuse of underage girls than to defend the reputation of his friend and possible mentor Mr. Minsky against accusations that he presumably wanted to believe were false.
iv) Mr. Stallman was presumably aware of Mr. Epstein's donations to Harvard and the reason why he was making them given the accusations that had been leveled against Mr. Epstein in the press through articles like this one:
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/us/03epstein.html
v) Mr. Stallman presumably knows that he is a public figure who is recognized around the globe for his lifelong contribution to the free software movement, and that any statements which he makes in support of Mr. Epstein personally, or in defense of his alleged illegal behavior, could be seized upon by attorneys like Mr. Dershowitz to help Mr. Epstein negotiate his next "sweetheart deal," much like Mr. Epstein's "CIA connection" was used to bamboozle federal prosecutors for the first deal.
Regarding this last bullet point, do realize that this was exactly what Mr. Reif was doing for Mr. Epstein when he handed him that personally signed thank-you note that has caused so much public outcry and calls for his resignation.
By the way, Reif's thank-you note is also eerily similar to what happened here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/world/europe/gabriel-matz...
Note that in this case, pedophile prize-winning author Gabriel Matzneff received his "thank-you" note not from the president of MIT, but from the former president of France!
Matzneff openly bragged about taking multiple eight year-old boys to bed that he picked up at a shopping plaza in the Philippines so that he could enjoy sexually abusing them all at the same time, to only then celebrate it in one of his most despicable novels, and like Epstein, he also managed to evade prosecution for these crimes over the course of several decades, because he had his set of "protectors" sitting in powerful places too.
So Stallman should think about answering his critics at the appropriate time, because it sure as hell looks like he was providing "reputation laundering" for Mr. Epstein along with MIT president Rafael Reif, and in the court of public opinion, what Mr. Stallman has hopefully learned by now is that circumstantial evidence is often all that's needed to convict.
My current understanding, and I'd like to be corrected if I'm wrong here, is that Mr. Stallman's primary role at the FSF over the past decade has been to raise money for that organization, much like Rafael Reif's primary role at MIT is to raise money for the university.
I am also not asking whether he was motivated "by greed" when he made public statements that appeared to defend Epstein.
Your use of the word "greed" is a distraction away from the real question that I asked previously: were any of Mr. Stallman's statements intended to persuade Mr. Epstein to donate part of his $500 million estate to the Free Software Foundation?
That's all that I am asking here!
If his sole intention was to defend his dear friend Mr. Minsky from false accusations of raping a underage girl who was allegedly being trafficked to him by Mr. Epstein on "Pedophile Isle," then why is he attacking the law that protects underage girls from people like Mr. Epstein rather than the accuser who you claim that Mr. Stallman is not prepared to believe?
To the extent that Stallman used his position at MIT and the FSF to help Jeffrey Epstein evade prosecution under the federal RICO statute for several decades by colluding with Epstein co-conspirators MIT president Rafael Reif, MIT corporation chairman Robert Millard and corporate vice presidents Morgan, Newton, Ruiz and Lucas, as well as colleagues Seth Lloyd and Marvin Minsky, in hopes of receiving the kind of money that they witnessed Epstein donate to Harvard as quid pro quo for Harvard law professor and Epstein best buddy Alan "Dershbag" Dershowitz negotiating the infamous 2011 "sweetheart deal" with federal prosecutors, that was also facilitated by Benedict "Dick" Gross, Martin Nowak, Stephen Kosslyn, Steven "Use-of-the-Internet-to-Entice-a-Minor-into-Prostitution-is-A-Okay" Stinker of a Pinker, and former Harvard president Larry "Women Can't Do Science" Summers, then that's a huge obstacle to allowing Mr. Stallman to continue to serve on the board of the FSF.
As far as the examplars you quote above, namely Austria, Germany and Italy, along with some of their collaborators during WWII, I wonder if even Epstein, Maxwell, Reif, Summers, Pinker, Kosslyn, Minsky, Oxman, Dubin, Wexner, Black, Zuckerman, and last but not least, Alan "Dershbag" Dershowitz, would approve of citing these countries as modern role models for the protection of basic human rights.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/mit-scientist-stallman-pedophi...
He's never adequately explained from what I can tell why he made those statements in the first place. If he could provide that additional insight, I think it would help others evaluate the sincerity of his apology.
The question today that I have for Mr. Stallman, whom many of us hold in the highest regard for his role in the free software movement, is a very frank one: were his remarks in support of pedophilia designed to persuade Mr. Epstein to donate part of his $500 million estate to the Free Software Foundation, much like he observed role-models such as MIT president Rafael Reif do for Mr. Epstein when Dr. Reif sent Mr. Epstein a personally signed thank-you note for his donation to the Media Lab, or colleagues like Martin Nowak do for Mr. Epstein when Dr. Nowak created a web page on a university website and an office in his department for a convicted child-rapist in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in donations that were promised to his academic program at Harvard and hundreds of millions of dollars in donations, often laundered through Epstein's fellow billionaire pedophile friends like Les Wexner, Glenn Dubin, and Leon Black, to Harvard University, where Mr. Nowak is a professor?
https://futurism.com/the-byte/mit-scientist-stallman-pedophi...
He's never adequately explained from what I can tell why he made those statements in the first place. If he could provide that additional insight, I think it would help others evaluate the sincerity of his apology.
The question today that I have for Mr. Stallman, whom many of us hold in the highest regard for his role in the free software movement, is a very frank one:
Were his remarks in support of pedophilia designed to persuade Mr. Epstein to donate part of his $500 million estate to the Free Software Foundation, much like he observed role-models such as MIT president Rafael Reif do for Mr. Epstein when Dr. Reif sent Mr. Epstein a personally signed thank-you note for his donation to the Media Lab, or colleagues like Martin Nowak do for Mr. Epstein when Dr. Nowak created a web page on a university website and an office in his department for a convicted child-rapist in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in donations that were promised to his academic program at Harvard and hundreds of millions of dollars in donations, often laundered through Epstein's fellow billionaire pedophile friends like Les Wexner and Glenn Dubin, to Harvard University, where Mr. Nowak is employed as a math professor?
Both MIT and Harvard have admitted to helping Jeffrey Epstein avoid prosecution on federal racketeering charges for the sex-trafficking of minors after they were exposed by whistle-blowers at both of these institutions.
Not sure why it would be appropriate then to exclude Stallman from serving on the Board of the FSF while allowing Rafael Reif, for example, to remain president of MIT after sending a personally signed "thank-you note" to one of the most notorious alleged sex-traffickers and convicted child-rapists in US history:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2020/01/12/after-epstei...
Nor would it be any more appropriate to allow Mr. Seth Lloyd back onto the MIT campus with just a slap on the wrist:
https://thetech.com/2021/02/25/mit-administration-epstein-op...
Or Mr. Martin "Punishment Serves No Noble Purpose" Nowak for that matter either:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/26/metro/harvard-sanctio...
This hacker news thread on Nowak is worth reading again:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25442060
So why has nobody drafted petitions to cancel Rafael Reif, Benedict "Dick" Gross, Alan "Dershbag" Dershowitz, Martin Nowak, Steven Pinker, Seth Lloyd, Neri Oxman, Frank Wilczek, and all of the other pedophilia-supporting two-faced phonies that attended Edge Foundation dinners hosted by the convicted child rapist and/or visited him on "Pedophile Isle," where FBI reportedly found instruction manuals that Mr. Epstein had ordered on Amazon that describe how to create a so-called "sex slave," in addition to video tapes containing child pornography that he allegedly recorded using secret cameras that were installed throughout his various residences?
Ito resigned. Kosslyn has repeatdly resigned as he tried to run with his tail between his legs from one university to the next as soon as he started to feel the heat (thanks to some anonymous emails).
It's time to cancel the rest of them too ... and that now includes Claudine Gay at Harvard and Martin Schmidt at MIT who signed off on allowing Nowak and Lloyd to return to their respective campuses !!!
And on the topic of LGBTQ+, looks like Epstein saw little difference between pedophilia and homosexuality:
http://thecentralvoice.com/stories/jeffrey-epsteins-remarks-...
This could be why Epstein may have seen gays as powerful allies for his anticipated prosecution on federal child sex-trafficking charges:
http://lanternproject.org.uk/library/general/articles-and-in...
It has also been suggested that Mr. Epstein's close friend and confidant Les Wexner is gay:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/i90f3v/epstein_and...
https://futurism.com/the-byte/mit-scientist-stallman-pedophi...
He's never adequately explained from what I can tell why he made those statements in the first place. If he could provide that additional insight, I think it would help others evaluate the sincerity of his apology.
The question that I have for Mr. Stallman is a very frank one: were his remarks in support of pedophilia designed to persuade Mr. Epstein to donate part of his $500 million estate to the Free Software Foundation, much like he observed role-models such as MIT president Rafael Reif do for Mr. Epstein when Dr. Reif sent Mr. Epstein a personally signed thank-you note for his donation to the Media Lab, or colleagues like Martin Nowak do for Mr. Epstein when Dr. Nowak created a web page on a university website and an office in his department for a convicted child-rapist in exchange for millions in donations to his academic program at Harvard.
Of course!
There was a nice discussion on hacker news recently about Martin Nowak's research on this topic that was largely funded by Jeffrey Epstein, and as a result was likely designed to serve as a foil for a billionaire convicted child-rapist who was facing impending federal charges at the time for the sex-trafficking of minors:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25442060
Nowak's punishment for his role in aiding and abetting an accused sex-trafficker?
https://harvardmagazine.com/2021/03/martin-nowak-sanctioned-...
Claudine Gay has decided that Martin Nowak only needs to serve two years of probation for openly aiding and abetting a convicted child rapist and accused child sex-trafficker by conspiring with fellow accused child molester and Harvard law professor (and also Epstein best buddy) Alan "Dershbag" Dershowitz to help Mr. Epstein evade prosecution on pending federal racketeering charges ... in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in donations to Harvard from Epstein's estimated $500 million estate, that was laundered in part through other members of Mr. Epstein's billionaire child sex-trafficking ring that included Les Wexner, Leon Black, and Glenn Dubin.
Hopefully there are a few like-minded students at Harvard that will keep the pressure alive on their university's administration like these brave souls over at MIT are doing:
https://thetech.com/2021/02/25/mit-administration-epstein-op...
Nowak used to write papers on how punishment "serves no noble purpose" as part of the interference with the legal process that Nowak was running for Epstein.
Actually, one of the principal reasons why the courts can sentence folks like Epstein and Nowak under the federal RICO statute for up to a lifetime sentence in prison, in addition to seizing his assets (and possibly those of Harvard and MIT as well) under the criminal forfeiture provision of that statute, is not just for "punishment."
It's for deterrence.
The message that law enforcement sends by not prosecuting Epstein's co-conspirators at schools like Harvard and MIT, that include Nowak and several others, is that there are no real legal consequences for this type of behavior.
And so what again we see here is a prime example of how the real discrimination that takes place in the United States judicial system regarding who gets punished and who escapes scot-free has less to do with skin color than it does with the size of your bank account, and in Nowak's case, the size of your culpable employer's bank account too.
https://twitter.com/frankwilczek/status/1183476893049380867
Shame on Frank for trying to downplay his connection to Jeffrey Epstein's billionaire sex-trafficking ring!
Pinker once tried to claim that "he never really liked the guy" either .... but signed on to Alan Dershowitz' legal defense "dream team" to help the latter find a "linguistically valid" way to interpret a law prohibiting the use of the internet to entice minors into prostitution in order to help Mr. Epstein avoid prosecution on racketeering charges in federal court that would have subjected his estimated $500 million estate to criminal forfeiture proceedings ... instead of Harvard and MIT's endowment !!!
Indeed there are also plenty of child rapists hiding within the Catholic Church, which is mentioned in the article.
But Frank is an even bigger fraud on this topic. Students and other faculty members should throw a few proverbial pies at the two-face whenever he attempts to give a public talk ... as they should his colleague and fellow Epstein acolyte Mr. Seth Lloyd:
Shame on "Ms. Affirmative Action" at Harvard for "punishing" Martin Nowak with only two years of probation. Nowak aided and abetted a convicted child rapist by conspiring with fellow accused child molester and Epstein best buddy Alan "Dershbag" Dershowitz to help Mr. Epstein evade prosecution on pending federal racketeering charges in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in donations to Harvard from Epstein's estimated $500 million estate, that was laundered in part through other members of Mr. Epstein's billionaire child sex-trafficking ring that includes Les Wexner, Leon Black, and Glenn Dubin.
Hopefully there are a few like-minded students at Harvard that will keep the pressure alive on their university's administration like these brave souls over at MIT are doing:
https://thetech.com/2021/02/25/mit-administration-epstein-op...
As for the punishment that Claudine Gay now deserves, that's a difficult one to decide. But if she has a daughter that is around the same age as any of the girls that Mr. Epstein abused on "Pedophile Isle," and like Alan Dershowitz, she believes that the age of consent should be lowered to 14 so middle-age guys can "partake of the forbidden fruit," as he likes to call it, maybe her daughter needs to be sent over to spend the night ... with Richard Stallman?
Shame on "Ms. Affirmative Action" at Harvard for "punishing" Martin Nowak with only two years of probation.
Nowak aided and abetted a convicted child rapist by conspiring with fellow accused child molester and Epstein best buddy Alan "Dershbag" Dershowitz to help Mr. Epstein evade prosecution on pending federal racketeering charges in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in donations to Harvard from Epstein's estimated $500 million estate, that was laundered in part through other members of Mr. Epstein's billionaire child sex-trafficking ring that included Les Wexner, Leon Black, and Glenn Dubin.
Hopefully there are a few like-minded students at Harvard that will keep the pressure on their university's administration like these brave souls over at MIT are doing:
https://thetech.com/2021/02/25/mit-administration-epstein-op...
As for the punishment that Claudine Gay now deserves, that's a difficult one to decide. But if she has a daughter that is around the same age as any of the girls that Mr. Epstein abused on "Pedophile Isle," and like Alan Dershowitz, she believes that the age of consent should be lowered to 14 so middle-age guys can "partake of the forbidden fruit," as he likes to call it, maybe her daughter needs to be sent over to spend the night ... with Richard Stallman!
Try scoop instead:
Neither do companies get rich off of increasing diversity.
In building his fortune, did Musk overlook any "marginalized peoples"?
I can't tell from reading the author's Python code.
The most important thing that Harvard and MIT have that RMS does not ... is $50 billion between them in endowments.
OSI will never forget that ... especially given how many cheerleaders there are for creating more open source software on both of these campuses.
Both MIT and Harvard have admitted to helping Jeffrey Epstein avoid prosecution on federal racketeering charges for the sex-trafficking of minors after they were exposed by whistle-blowers.
Not sure why it would be appropriate then to exclude Stallman from serving on the Board of the FSF while allowing Rafael Reif, for example, to remain president of MIT after sending a personally signed "thank-you note" to one of the most notorious alleged sex-traffickers and convicted child-rapists in US history:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2020/01/12/after-epstei...
Nor would it be any more appropriate to allow Mr. Seth Lloyd back onto the MIT campus:
https://thetech.com/2021/02/25/mit-administration-epstein-op...
What are the allegations against Stallman regarding the aiding and abetting of sex-trafficking and/or child rape?
Both MIT and Harvard have admitted to helping Jeffrey Epstein avoid prosecution on federal racketeering charges for the sex-trafficking of minors after they were exposed by whistle-blowers.
Not sure why it would be appropriate then to exclude Stallman from serving on the Board of the FSF while allowing Rafael Reif, for example, to remain president of MIT after sending a personally signed "thank-you note" to one of the most notorious alleged sex-traffickers and convicted child-rapists in US history:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2020/01/12/after-epstei...
Nor would it be any more appropriate to allow Mr. Seth Lloyd back onto the MIT campus either:
https://thetech.com/2021/02/25/mit-administration-epstein-op...
What are the allegations against Stallman regarding the aiding and abetting of sex-trafficking and/or child rape?
Will OSI participate in any future events hosted on the MIT or Harvard campuses after these universities' complicity in helping Jeffrey Epstein avoid prosecution on federal racketeering charges for the sex-trafficking of minors was exposed by whistle-blowers?
Not sure why it would be appropriate to exclude Stallman from serving on the Board of the FSF while allowing Rafael Reif, for example, to remain president of MIT after sending a personally signed "thank-you note" to one of the most notorious alleged sex-traffickers and convicted child-rapists in US history:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2020/01/12/after-epstei...
Nor would it be any more appropriate to allow Mr. Seth Lloyd back onto the MIT campus either:
https://thetech.com/2021/02/25/mit-administration-epstein-op...
What are the allegations against Stallman regarding the aiding and abetting of sex-trafficking and/or child rape?
Agree with your more nuanced take on it.
https://forallx.openlogicproject.org/forallxyyc.pdf
Superb writing and well motivated.
The cover-up continues!
How dare Rafael Reif try to play the race card on the recent shootings in Atlanta.
The shooter has made it clear to law enforcement that his only motive was to "remove the temptation" that these largely Asian-staffed massage parlors were creating for this self-identified sex-addict.
In which case, what Rafael is really angry about here is that folks in the sex-trafficking industry were the real target of this attack, because Rafael, along with so many of his "woke" colleagues at places like MIT and Harvard University, are huge supporters of the sex-trafficking industry, because they believe that it "empowers" women.
Let's remember that Rafael Reif sent a personally signed thank-you note for a lousy $800,000 donation to the MIT Media Lab to one of the most notorious sex-traffickers in US history: good ol' Jeffrey Epstein!
The targeted killing of a dissident journalist by one of Jeffrey's best friends, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, didn't prevent Rafael from taking a million or two from that assassin either. Neither did it prompt him to write a letter to the community about the need to respect free speech and other basic human rights.
But kill anyone working within the sex-trafficking industry ... well, that deserves a letter decrying "racism" that needs to be distributed through sites like Hacker News.
Of course the sex-trafficking that Mr. Reif values the most is not happening inside seedy side-of-the-road massage parlors, but rather inside five-star hotels, for example in Kendall Square located in MIT's own backyard, where so-called "sugar-babies" meet up with middle-aged professionals (which reportedly includes plenty of university professors from universities that charge $50,000/yr. tuitions) to provide them with sexual "favors" in exchange for the "allowances" and other gifts that they receive as part of their "arrangement."
The biggest name in the college-based sex-trafficking industry, SeekingArrangment.com, was started by none other than MIT Sloan School of Management graduate Brandon Wade, who like Mr. Epstein, is one of MIT's wealthiest donors.
Wade, who is worth over $50 million today, claims more than 5 million sugar-babies are currently available "for hire" on his website alone, in an industry that has now reached an estimated 30 million worldwide.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/5/20/sugar-baby-univ...
According to this article, the primary reason why most young college girls are signing up to sell "sugar" (also known as their "body" ... conveniently disguised on Wade's web site as their "companionship") to their middle-aged male counterparts is to help cover the salaries of overpaid university administrators like Rafael Reif and the minions with whom he surrounds himself, like MIT ICEO John Dozier, as well as his predecessor, Susan Hockfield, who reportedly continues to receive $700,000 per year from MIT as part of her settlement after "unexpectedly" stepping down as the former president of MIT ... for reasons officially "still unknown" :)
This is where that revolution is headed now ... here's some of the top search results from Google in no particular order:
https://www.csustan.edu/sites/default/files/groups/Universit...
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/seeking-arrangements-sugar...
https://www.insider.com/teachers-are-increasingly-becoming-s...
Unfortunately with actual real-world policies like affirmative action that implement reverse racism and sexism in corporations and universities throughout the United States, often the people at these meetings *are less qualified* than ones who did not get hired under same policies.
Human brains are Bayesian filters. Affirmative action policies will understandably influence the prior even among individuals who believe in diversity and inclusion.
When she "starts talking," a fair-minded individual will develop a posterior that appropriately updates any suspicions that were previously held.
Not a damn thing!
Some of us are a lot more concerned about economic and opportunity inequality among people who have already been born then about problems created by climate change for those who can afford to create the next generation.
For many of these folks whose debt is keeping them from starting families, they have accumulated medical debt from having to accept higher deductibles on health insurance plans that they can afford to buy, educational debt to earn an over-priced degree at a university that still supports way too many do-nothing administrators, and huge mortgages from being forced to purchase overpriced homes near where they work thanks to the snob-zoning which has been passed in many of these same real-estate markets by the folks who already own homes and have started families, which they often turn around and try to justify in the name of "protecting the environment."
Bitcoin is a direct assault on the authority of central banks to control money supply and set interest rates.
The time is long overdue for citizens to start playing a more direct role in these two important functions of monetary policy.
Bitcoin also provides a convenient method for holders of this currency to lower the taxes that they are forced to pay in order to fund all of the waste and corruption not only within the federal reserve banking system, which is a revolving door that connects to Wall Street, but in other government agencies as well.
Stiglitz, who has spent most of his career living on a form of UBI courtesy of the parents who are desperate for their kids to attend Ivy League schools, is not very credible as a result on the topic of who exactly US monetary policy is intended to benefit: Wall Street fat cats sporting Ivy League degrees (enabled by their heavily lobbied allies in government like Chuck Schumer) or the Main Street average joe?
Yes -- big difference.