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by stale2002 1402 days ago
Once again. 2 situations.

Situation 1: Person has no money, or worthless money.

Situation 2: Person has 50k USD worth of global currency.

Situation 2 is obviously better. Massively. It is absurd to pretend like situation 2 isn't clearly, obviously, and massively better.

Yes there are some issue with global trade, or whatever. But it is clearly, and obviously better, to have 50k USD in an offshore account, or 50k worth of currency somewhere else.

Think about this situation, specifically. No, it is not just "you can keep your Netflix subscription".

That is a bad argument. It is worth more than that.

> Various regulations and logistical impediments

No. You would be wrong to just say "regulations" means that having 50k worth of USD money somewhere is now worthless. I can promise you, that anyone at all, living basically anywhere in the world would be better if if they had 50k USD in an offshore account.

You cannot seriously, with a straight face say "yep! Having 50k in an offshore account is worthless!"

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> You cannot seriously, with a straight face say "yep! Having 50k in an offshore account is worthless!"

Good job I didn't say it seriously then, or at all, for that matter.

I was writing in context of a thread about a guy who "robbed" a bank to get back his own money to pay for essentials. I still don't see how owning crypto or any sort of global currency would have helped him (or the millions of other Lebanese currently in the same boat) very much at all.

> Good job I didn't say it seriously then, or at all, for that matter.

Awesome! So then you agree that having 50k$ of equivalent value, outside of the lebanon bank would not be worthless, and would instead be worth a lot! Glad you agree with me.

> I still don't see how owning crypto or any sort of global currency would have helped him

Well, it would be because now they have 50k$ of equivalent value, in a place that is not the Lebanon bank. Therefore the Lebanon bank can't take it from them.

That is how it would have helped. Having that money, outside of a local collapsing banking system, would mean that any of those people would now have 50k$ of value, in a place that the Lebanon bank can't take it.

And you agree with me on this, because you are not saying "yep! Having 50k in an offshore account is worthless!".

You aren't saying that. Which means that you agree with me completely, that it would not be worthless to have that money, or equivalent value of that money, in an offshore account.

"Worthless" and "unhelpful in this situation" are not the same thing.