> but your repeated downplaying of dysfunctional/authoritarian/corrupt/failing governments seems entirely disconnected

Again: stop inventing the arguments that are not there. The only people who are downplaying dysfunctonal governments are the crypto shills and crypto peddlers.

If you actually took care and read what I wrote instead of imagining what I wrote, you'd see that never did I downplay dysfunctional governments.

> doesn't make oppressive governments any less oppressive.

Literally nowhere I said this.

> but the argument that poor government is not that bad of a global problem "all things considered" is an absolutely terrible one.

If only there was a single person here who made this argument. Also, an oppressive government does not a dysfunctional government make.

So, in the course of just a few sentences you made these claims:

- that I downplayed dysfunctional/authoritarian/corrupt/failing governments. I didn't

- that I somehow argued that oppressive gvernments are not that oppressive. I didn't

- that somehow authoritarian/oppressive is equal to dysfunctional. It isn't, necessarily.

What I did write was:

- the vast majority of people in this world do not live in dysfunctional governments

- crypto makes the problems with dysfunctional governments worse: your "assets that goverment can't steal" have to be somehow converted into food/clothing/shelter etc. which makes you a target for Rubber-hose cryptanalysis etc. Any other "assets" are worthless because your "non fungible proof of ownership on blockchain" on your house, car, and other physical items are woth exactly zero even in a functional government, much less in a dysfunctional one.

So. "All things considered", what's your opposition to what I wrote and not to what you imagine I wrote?