It really boils my blood that it is still so hard for artists etc to get money from people for making stuff without some multinational dracula sticking their slimy hands in everyone's pockets and/or banning them for making the Wrong Kind Of Art, while eg Tether has been running an open air money laundering operation for years now unpunished, moving billions in dark money for the wealthy, most of it probably going towards genuinely harmful shit. The "legitimacy" of a given transaction in the eyes of payment services is a fig leaf for how much it benefits the largest, best-positioned capitalists (and the marks they're currently sucking money out of).

































