I eagerly await Elon’s creation of a Pay Pal rival. I’ll sign on faster than I did Twitter after his purchase of that warped monstrosity. Who’s to tell me I can’t give money to Canadian truckers if I damn well feel like it?
I eagerly await Elon’s creation of a Pay Pal rival. I’ll sign on faster than I did Twitter after his purchase of that warped monstrosity. Who’s to tell me I can’t give money to Canadian truckers if I damn well feel like it?
The correct answer to jemarr's question, of course, is Canada's Prime Minister: he'll decide to what extent "unCanadians" like jemarr qualify as eligible to keep shopping for groceries. Better have a good cache at home if you're planning to post any more subversive comments, jemarr.
I’d say probably keep a ready supply of water, long life milk and cans of food if you in Canada. Think next year the Sh.. will hit the fan for Canadians, but when the elections come round for Justin I think he is going to be voted out unless of course he rigs the vote, then again stranger things have happened.
I'm thinking the same thing. Why don't the original PayPal founders get together and start a rival? They already know how to, and they seem to care about the issue enough.
Musk has already said he wants to add a payments function to Twitter, so the rival is coming soon. His idea is to steal back the very lucrative payments business from PayPal. This may have been his intent from the beginning. His turn to free speech and transparency is just a way a telling PayPal customers, "hey, you can trust Twitter not to do what PayPal is doing"
THAT is a great idea. The problem moving to another platform is you need something that is ubiquitous. I spent last year busking all day and a fair portion of my donations came through Venmo. Switching to a donation platform other people don't already have just means I would forfeit those donations. Many people don't carry or prefer not to give cash.
We are witnessing the problem with fiat currencies and as young Mr. B-F has demonstrated there is not yet a viable "crypto" alternative. The US has only been off the gold standard since Nixon. FDR made it illegal for US citizens to own gold, bought it at all at a nominal price, then raised the price of gold considerably within a week thereby enriching the US goverent.
Elon Musk was an original founder of PayPal........... he already did that and as soon as he and Theil walked away to do other things the company started down this path. I wish Elon Musk well with Twitter, but one dude isn’t going to save the world alone. God helps those who help themselves and we either take back our institutions by each of us doing everything we can to influence those around us and to support economic competition or we’ll go the route of China despite Musk’s best efforts.
I cancelled my PayPal account right after they removed the clause and then added it again in regards to dining people for wrong think. Truly bizarre that anyone at PayPal thinks this stuff is good. It’s full on communism.
I did the same. The threat of fining users for anything the company decides it doesn't like was the last straw. I heard a lot of apologetics--"oh, it's only people who use PayPal itself to commit fraud who will be fined." Nope, as long as it's in their terms of service, they can fine anyone for anything they choose, and as we've seen with the account suspensions--you don't have to actually commit a crime in order for them to steal your money.
I'm not sure I would trust any online payment service again after this. Low-limit credit cards seem to be the safest way to buy stuff online now.
Elon has massive capabilities, but as my father used to say, "You can ride a good horse to death." I'd love to have a Tesla phone, too, but Musk is spreading himself so thin that I worry about his health. And of course, he is such a threat to the Globalists and their Great Reset that Arkancide is always only a breath away....
The problem is that, as we have seen, one can invent something with the best of intentions, but the spirit of the age will take over once the inventor walks away. That is what the article says - so one man, or a few, can't really change the tide. The schools are churning out an indoctrinated workforce, and they will continue to subvert any business they work at. This is a "hand that rocks the cradle" problem, as noted above.
I eagerly await Elon’s creation of a Pay Pal rival. I’ll sign on faster than I did Twitter after his purchase of that warped monstrosity. Who’s to tell me I can’t give money to Canadian truckers if I damn well feel like it?
The correct answer to jemarr's question, of course, is Canada's Prime Minister: he'll decide to what extent "unCanadians" like jemarr qualify as eligible to keep shopping for groceries. Better have a good cache at home if you're planning to post any more subversive comments, jemarr.
I’d say probably keep a ready supply of water, long life milk and cans of food if you in Canada. Think next year the Sh.. will hit the fan for Canadians, but when the elections come round for Justin I think he is going to be voted out unless of course he rigs the vote, then again stranger things have happened.
I hope sooner than later jemarr!
I'm thinking the same thing. Why don't the original PayPal founders get together and start a rival? They already know how to, and they seem to care about the issue enough.
Musk has already said he wants to add a payments function to Twitter, so the rival is coming soon. His idea is to steal back the very lucrative payments business from PayPal. This may have been his intent from the beginning. His turn to free speech and transparency is just a way a telling PayPal customers, "hey, you can trust Twitter not to do what PayPal is doing"
THAT is a great idea. The problem moving to another platform is you need something that is ubiquitous. I spent last year busking all day and a fair portion of my donations came through Venmo. Switching to a donation platform other people don't already have just means I would forfeit those donations. Many people don't carry or prefer not to give cash.
Possibly a non-compete in the original offer? Most have an end date, though, which I think would have passed.
We are witnessing the problem with fiat currencies and as young Mr. B-F has demonstrated there is not yet a viable "crypto" alternative. The US has only been off the gold standard since Nixon. FDR made it illegal for US citizens to own gold, bought it at all at a nominal price, then raised the price of gold considerably within a week thereby enriching the US goverent.
Elon Musk was an original founder of PayPal........... he already did that and as soon as he and Theil walked away to do other things the company started down this path. I wish Elon Musk well with Twitter, but one dude isn’t going to save the world alone. God helps those who help themselves and we either take back our institutions by each of us doing everything we can to influence those around us and to support economic competition or we’ll go the route of China despite Musk’s best efforts.
"Praise the country that produces heroes. Pity the country that needs them"
I cancelled my PayPal account right after they removed the clause and then added it again in regards to dining people for wrong think. Truly bizarre that anyone at PayPal thinks this stuff is good. It’s full on communism.
I not only closed an old PayPal account we never used, I called my investor to make sure I didn't have any stock in it.
I did the same. The threat of fining users for anything the company decides it doesn't like was the last straw. I heard a lot of apologetics--"oh, it's only people who use PayPal itself to commit fraud who will be fined." Nope, as long as it's in their terms of service, they can fine anyone for anything they choose, and as we've seen with the account suspensions--you don't have to actually commit a crime in order for them to steal your money.
I'm not sure I would trust any online payment service again after this. Low-limit credit cards seem to be the safest way to buy stuff online now.
Sounds like the folks at Twitter to me. The former folks.
Elon has massive capabilities, but as my father used to say, "You can ride a good horse to death." I'd love to have a Tesla phone, too, but Musk is spreading himself so thin that I worry about his health. And of course, he is such a threat to the Globalists and their Great Reset that Arkancide is always only a breath away....
The problem is that, as we have seen, one can invent something with the best of intentions, but the spirit of the age will take over once the inventor walks away. That is what the article says - so one man, or a few, can't really change the tide. The schools are churning out an indoctrinated workforce, and they will continue to subvert any business they work at. This is a "hand that rocks the cradle" problem, as noted above.
Good one:
arkancide
The act of being murked by one of any member of a formerly powerful political family from Arkansas.
"Last night I heard four gunshots in my neighborhood!" "Probably another former Clinton associate committing Arkancide."
Ditto!
Careful. There are plenty of ways for the state to strangle Bitcoin, most having to do with translating Bitcoin into fiat money.