I make a decent living improving software to make real people's lives easier. I'll probably never be a millionaire but I'll never have trouble sleeping at night. There are plenty of points in my career where I could've chosen to make more money by selling something that doesn't work to idiots, and I don't regret missing out on any of them.
If it bothered you that much, you could have had millions to donate to any charity of your choice.
>I'll probably never be a millionaire
You won't with that attitude.
>There are plenty of points in my career where I could've chosen to make more money by selling something that doesn't work to idiots
You started with airs of the moral high ground and now you're the supposed smart guy to the rest of the idiots. By extension, you're implying Bitcoin buyers are also idiots. The hubris. The gall. The cope.
> If it bothered you that much, you could have had millions to donate to any charity of your choice.
Donating a fraction of my ill-gotten gains wouldn't make them any less ill-gotten. There would still be real people who'd lost money on the other end.
> You started with airs of the moral high ground and now you're the supposed smart guy to the rest of the idiots. By extension, you're implying Bitcoin buyers are also idiots.
I believe it's worthless. I'm not going to make money selling something I believe is worthless (to the people I'm selling to; I have no problem selling e.g. fashionable clothes to people who put value in that even if I don't personally). If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'll lose out.
> The hubris. The gall. The cope.
People selling things that have actual value don't talk like this. You're sounding like a huckster.
>Donating a fraction of my ill-gotten gains wouldn't make them any less ill-gotten. There would still be real people who'd lost money on the other end.
The gains are not "ill-gotten". Slamming people who buy Bitcoin and implying they are somehow morally wrong and that you are somehow superior is disgusting. But that's another moral argument so I guess I could be hypocritical like you except I'm right.
>I believe it's worthless. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'll lose out.
"it's worthless" "If" "I will lose out" Sorry to break the news but a Bitcoin is worth 9200 US dollars. You are wrong and you have already lost out.
>People selling things that have actual value don't talk like this. You're sounding like a huckster.
It wouldn't matter what I said, you've obviously made up your mind so no matter what, to you, I'm going to sound like a "huckster" and bitcoin doesn't have value and people who buy it for some reason plucked from your imagination have trouble sleeping at night (I mean what?) on and on. I hope that makes you feel better.
> The gains are not "ill-gotten". Slamming people who buy Bitcoin and implying they are somehow morally wrong and that you are somehow superior is disgusting.
They are ill-gotten, since the only actual value Bitcoin produces is to the drugs trade (or similar businesses that rely on evading the rule of democratically-passed law). All the rest of Bitcoin activity is zero- or negative-sum - there's no other value going into the system, so everything else is just moving drug money around.
> "it's worthless" "If" "I will lose out" Sorry to break the news but a Bitcoin is worth 9200 US dollars. You are wrong and you have already lost out.
People sure as hell aren't getting 9200 dollars' real-world use out of it (except maybe the ones who are trading drugs). For anyone else it's a 9200 dollar hot potato - someone is going to be left carrying the can.
> It wouldn't matter what I said, you've obviously made up your mind so no matter what
I'm always open to substantive arguments. "Nice cope" suggests you don't have any.
