He should hire private protection. Funny how an anti-government person runs to the government in times of trouble.
My unpopular opinion is that this guy should be mugged in the streets for running a shitcoin ponzi...but that's just an opinion. In reality, he should be handed to US authorities and serve a long prison term.
I don't know why a Korean should be handed to US authorities but in a world that many cryptobros envision, we will live in warlords with private armies up until they each fight off each other.
Everybody is gangsta until an actual gangster knocks on your door.
> He should hire private protection. Funny how an anti-government person runs to the government in times of trouble.
Why is it funny? Regardless of how anti-government you are, you're already have a contract with government: they take your money and give you protection. You wish to change this contract, may be even spend time and effort in political activity to get it changed, but it's still there.
The fact that you express your desire to change your contract with somebody does not give them any (moral or legal) right to not follow the contract if it is not yet changed. And especially if, despite your wish to change it, you still follow your side of the contract (pay taxes).
It's funny because their argument for pushing crypto is that govt is bad, taxation is theft, so govt needs to be circumvented financially in favor of a libertarian utopia with zero taxes so that govt can be crippled. Why would you want to take help from something you think is a terrible influence on the world? It comes off as selfish, capitalism and tax avoidance and even evasion when it suits you and socialism when you need help.
> Why would you want to take help from something you think is a terrible influence on the world?
I've already answered that in my comment. You would want to take what's yours according to the contract that you've been forced to sign, even if you are trying to cancel the contract.
Private _protection_ is very different from private _police_. How do you think movie stars, mega popular singers etc. hire their… well, private protection?
Those guards are mostly for show. They really can't do anything. Even then, in South Korea it's even worse because I'm pretty sure they can't even carry a gun.
The happenings in the linked article look like they'd be easily deterred by the presence of strong men guarding the entrances. Not everyone posing a threat, especially in SK, comes in with blazing guns.
This was a really great read, thank you for sharing. I’m blown away by the quality of the reporting and the material the intercept were able to gather.
I don't participate in the crypto market but saw him yesterday on twitter for the first time, and guess what, he was telling people that they are poor for questioning his business practices.
The crypto bros were telling everyone on Twitter to "enjoy being poor", when they were loaded up on Luna. How am I supposed to feel about that kind of attitude?
My unpopular opinion is that this guy should be mugged in the streets for running a shitcoin ponzi...but that's just an opinion. In reality, he should be handed to US authorities and serve a long prison term.