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by alx__ 1178 days ago
This is really just an attack on non-wealthy people.

If you're fucking wealthy, it's also very easy to move money for fraud, drugs, murder, literally anything. They just don't use the Cash App

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It’s an attack on criminals, not non-wealthy people
But the attack is biased towards only the non-wealthy subset of criminals (par for the course), ipso facto it is an attack on the non-wealthy.
But the attack is biased towards only the non-wealthy subset of criminals

Oh no! Please, oh please, let's protect these fiscally impoverished criminals. What horrible social injustice!

Good grief. Just give it a rest please? Ridiculous.

I think you misunderstand my comment as an appraisal of crime, or something. My point is that wealthy financial criminals get off the hook way too freely, and that this is the injustice (relax, I'm not the justice warrior you think I am).
It’s an attack on water drinkers, air breathers, etc etc
Specifically, it's an attack on non-wealthy criminals and not wealthy criminals
> This is really just an attack on non-wealthy people.

It is not an an attack. Neither is it an "attack".

Nobody got hurt, nobody needs stitches, nobody was in fear for their life, autonomy, or well-being. Nobody brandished weapons, nobody damaged physical objects. That is why it is not an attack.

In modern parlance people started calling it an "attack" when someone was ever slo slightly mean to them. I think this usage is contemptible and should be called out. It devalues the meaning of the word. If a market participant publishing research is now an attack then what will you call when someone throws a punch and breaks a nose, or douses someone with gasoline and lights them on fire, or fires an intercontinental ballistic missile at a city?

So what?