"Again: How many of your last 100 purchases were made directly with monero? Just ballpark, I’m sure you have a sense.". A reasonable interpretation of this is, "you don't use it, so no one should".
Apparently millions of people find it useful. If you don't that's totally ok.
I think this is simply a privacy education issue. Here's how to anonymously buy a steam game, step by step:
If your secure computer is totally anonymous, so is your purchase.
Of my last 1 million purchases, exactly zero were done this way. The currency is not worth zero so obviously it's useful to some. "I don't personally use it" is an unconvincing argument, you simply don't care about private purchases which is totally ok.
If you were a progressive reporter in Saudi Arabia buying a web subscription to New York Times you would probably keep a balance of monero around, so these steps would take no time at all.
For the rest of us with nothing to hide, some of us use Monero like this simply to protect those who do need privacy. The more who use it, the better anonymity it provides.
You can exchange it to another accepted crypto, or convert to fiat depending on what you're trying to do. If you differ the exact amounts you buy and use, and delay the timing of your monero purchase and final purchase, it gives you anonymity. Or more like plausible deniability. Nobody said anonymity was convenient. You also don't need every purchase to be anonymous for it to be useful.
When you do most of those purchases you're not anonymous to begin. But if you want to buy an embarrassing pornographic game on Steam and don't want your payment provider to have "FURRYDICKS STUDIO" in your name, you sure can use Monero.
That's how amnesiac it is.
Monero doesn't need to be mainstream, it's immediately useful for privacy. Its price could dump 99% and it would be equally useful. You buy some, make your transaction, enjoy your anonymity and then forget about it. It's a tool, not an investment.
"If my daughter's skin flap is split, this old book says to throw rocks at her until her skull caves in."
"Idk how to avoid sounding condescending."
Maybe we shouldn't avoid it.
Even though Luigi Mangione didn't actually commit any crime and his trial is a flimsy sham, I agree. He is the public face of whoever really did it, and they are an icon of justice.
You will all make fine parents if you choose. Just slapping in some positivity and love here lol.
They shouldn't, but also PSA to any parents but modern parenting advice typically is to let your kids use social media if they choose, and guide them through the social and emotional difficulties with good communication. Don't blanket ban it because they'll just use it anyways without guidance, and be unprepared the moment they turn 18.
It's a case of: 99.9% of kids are smoking cigarettes so yours will too. Better to show them how to use a weekly cigar without inhaling, than just ban it which won't work.
Then you're lucky they had the freedom to donate their time like that.
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You won't get a lot of people talking about their usage, lol. Are you in witness protection? I think witness protection is useless too, since I've never heard anyone even admit to being in the program. Do you watch porn? Porn is completely useless, no one has ever even admitted watching it to me, even after I badger them about their fetishes.
Monero is exactly what I think it is. Is its value inflated 100x by pump and dump investors? Sure. Is it useful to millions even without the investments? You bet.