Debanked
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He cites one agency that allows work from home, but you have to be in the office one day a month.
One day.
People, being people, arrange their schedules to work in the office on the 31st of the month and the 1st. In the office for 2 days, and 58 days off. You can go to your home which is in a nice, and cheaper area to live in than DC, but still collect a paycheck based on DC cost of living.
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I listened to the whole conversation. Really interesting. A few of my favorite points:
- "Do you want America to win" is a great tribal divide. Everybody claims to be a patriot, especially with all the messaging from the left about saving our very democracy. But how a person feels on a gut level about the concept of America "winning" economically, which is of course relative to other countries, is a very powerful differentiator between those who self-identify on the left and the right.
- The de-banking thing seems real. My favorite leftist punditry from the Majority Report took this snippet out of the interview and giggled and sneered at it. They looked up the category Andreeson claimed was used to debank people, Politically Exposed Person, and the definition of it seemed not to have anything to do with politics. Case closed, Andresson is making shit up. But further on in Andreeson's interview, he is specific that anybody who deals with crypto as a professional was considered to be a politically exposed person, and that allowed the government to debank them with a phone call to whatever private institution does the banking. I trust Andreeson on this one that people are debanked for being a crypto professional, as a necessary but insufficient condition. Politics then becomes the secret arbiter of whether the phone call is made.
- The messaging opportunity RFK Jr has to educate the public about our diets and how unhealthy they are making us is huge. (I've been hearing that from lots of people lately, and I agree this administration is in a position to make a dent in this sort of educational deficit).
- Government regulations killed the American drone industry, which is why China dominates, and now all those Chinese drones in America are a risk.
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I’ll listen at some point.
The only thing that comes to mind is that some crypto currencies meet the definition of securities which limits their interaction with banks that aren’t broker-dealers. Or some of the crypto guys could have trouble passing a KYC test if they have too many shady customers, which many crypto exchanges do.
I can’t imagine how that would extend to an individual though.
