cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9525207
I miss when the tech business model was to find where buyers and sellers were interacting, insert an app in the middle and then add fees.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2026
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i’m going with the fake money for criminals, cuz sometimes the criminal in question is a trans person trying to get their medicine
to my great annoyance, almost all diy hrt online can only be bought using crypto. and wow does it make you hate cryptobros to have to navigate an ecosystem clearly designed for speculation to get your life-saving medicine 🫠
that sucks mam.
I hope eventually there are less dumb ways to access the stuff for you.a
I know this is programmer humor but as a tech guy who actually likes tech that isn't destructive, this just makes me sad
Fake Money for Criminals.
Turns out things for criminals sometimes can be an okay thing for noncriminals.
Also, buying explosives and fake documents. 🥰
Say your country makes baby formula illegal to push some breastfed is the only way agenda, would you consider a mother buying formula online with crypto a criminal?
Yes, because criminality has nothing to do with morals. If the state views you as a criminal, you are a criminal. That's why some criminals are still good people and cool.
Be gay, do crime
Legal != Moral
Without glasses, I thought that said "illegal crab company" and I was all in.
I prefer ethically sourced crab, tbh. I actually like the vat grown seafood because it is better for the environment and fresher inland.
No law can stop carcinization.
I love em all except the coins at the outset. Uber is too expensive these days but air bnb is utterly fantastically.
Ride sharing, short term rentals, Crypto, and AI?
I'm paying $900 for a short term (week and a half), last minute, airbnb, I'm meeting with a potential roommate tmr to move in on the 1st. Paying real rent instead of paying airbnb hosts.
Correct.
Fake money probably, it allows me to easily buy drugs from online.
If people value it I guess it isn't so fake. Most "legit" currencies are just the goverment promising you its worth something anyway.
A government promising it's worth something carries a hell of a lot more weight than some random tech-bro promising it.
In both cases the trading value of the currency has almost nothing to do with who originated it, and almost everything to do with how the general public feels about it.
Just like crypto, most "government" currencies are worth what they're worth only because everyone agrees that they are. That's called "fiat" currency. And that's why fiat currency exchange markets exist. The US Dollar hasn't been "convertible" (redeemable for a fixed amount of precious metal) since 1971, and many other world currencies were already backed in some way by the US Dollar at that time.
The real difference is in the supply.
Government fiat currency is difficult to counterfeit, although the government (or reserve bank) can always make more whenever they want. We trust them not to print more money, increasing the money supply and devaluing the currency. However, this is exactly what has happened sometimes in the past, and no doubt will happen again in the future.
Crypto currency is virtually impossible to counterfeit, and IIRC there's a finite (but not precisely known) amount of it that can be made, no matter who you are.
Personally, I still use physical fiat currency and no crypto. I'd like to use crypto, but regulation in my country makes it very difficult to use without registering your details with a central authority. And although everyone's pushing e-money options which are similarly tracked, thankfully I still have the option of using anonymous cash.
I don't do anything bad or illegal. I just believe that government and big business don't deserve to know everything I do in my life simply because they want to.
You just reminded me that it's been a couple of decades since I Candyflipped. Need to do that again soonish...
Monero my beloved...
I believe in a future where we won't need money anymore, but in the meantime, Monero is a pretty solid choice.
I tried looking at dreadforum to see how markets work nowadays and found out in a minute I was viewing a mirror that was injecting links
I think I'll just ask a dude on the street at this point
But then again I am in a country where that would work with 0 negative consequences for me as the user
I’ll never not upvote this meme
Well the innovations clearly must be good because people use them so much. Frankly the term "illegal" doesn't carry much weight for me. Piracy is illegal, but I think copyright is far worse.
It doesn't have to be like this though.
Here, for example, Uber is not allowed and Airbnbs are regulated
What country and why?
fake money for criminals
are they talking about crypto or fiat? because it's impossible to tell.
They're the same picture.
All money is fake money for criminals.
The unconstrained expansion of credit following the end of Bretton Woods system could only lead to the long term devaluation of the currency, something that's theorically infinite is also inherently entropic.
Its an old meme And it all started with illegal banking for musk and their... That should make the cut
Yup, the AI is definitely “the plagiarism machine.” 🤣 I’m using that from now on.
I want a none of the above option.
I’ll never not upvote this meme
16th repost of this meme in 2 years that i've been here.