To access an alpha with no end in sight? Yeah it is. For $45 I could go on Steam and get a bunch of finished games on sale with greater depth and playability.

This is not a live service game, it’s an alpha you have to pay absurd amounts of money to participate in.

Right, but the traceability of cryptocurrencies is irrelevant when it comes to money laundering.

Cryptocurrencies aren’t being laundered, real money is.

How does an NFT help the creator in the resale market?

“Where is the logical end point for anyone with this mindset?”

Sure, and as soon as the federal government directly intervenes you’ll be screaming about government overreach or socialism or any other lunacy.

“She practically invented the boobs-for-cash formula, “hot tub” streaming, and those disgusting ear licking videos, and she’s making bank.”

You draw the line at assets that impact your financial situation. Try securing a loan with your baseball card collection.

He’s clearly bought into his own cult of personality.

We can do both. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean its moral, and we generally look down upon immoral behavior.

I’m not arguing that taxing unrealized gains is a good idea. It would be practically impossible to enforce. All you need to do is regulate executive compensation so that it doesn’t skew towards options so much and you’ve solved most of the problem.

Sure if you want to get technical.

I was oversimplifying it for brevity’s sake.

I pay property taxes on my land and it will go up if the value of my land goes up. Maybe we should have stock taxes to make the whole “stocks are like houses” a reasonable comparison.

Jesus, who beat your dog this morning?

By that logic you should exclude any major military power since they were all culpable in horrific crimes. The US certainly did a lot of shady shit, the UK military likewise. Hell, the Canadian military is apparently very rapey to it’s own members.

That’s fair, but this is a controversy that is of greater interest to the public than deflated footballs were. It’s a ridiculous PR look for the NFL, but again, the NFL is categorically bad at this it borders on comedy.

So basically ban unions and lobby more?

Exactly. There just simply needs to be less waste coming from the source, and not just trying to deal with it once it’s been discarded.