I will only answer this because it's both hillarious and sad that crypto peddelrs have literally zero understanding of how the world works.

- Does China have currency controls? Yes

- Is China an authoritarian regime for some unspecified definition of authoritarian? Yes

- Does this mean it's dysfunctional and its citizens need help from crypto? Ahahahaha, no.

And here's why. An average person in a functioning state couldn't care less about not being able to spend some other country's currency somewhere else.

- Does China have a functioning government? Yes

- Does China have functioning banks? Yes

- Does China have means by which its citizens can procure and use goods and services? A resounding yes. As an example, on Singles Day AliPay alone handles over a bllion orders a day.

- Does China have means by which its citizens can participate in global economy including, but not limited to trading with other countries? A resounding yes. Between the EU, the US and Japan China does almost 2 trillion of dollars of international trade. Hobbyists and entusiasts all around the world routinely order made-to-order things from small companies and individuals in China. etc. etc. etc.

> I'm here because you are coming across as minimizing the economic struggles of millions of people.

Once again, stop pretending I'm doing and saying something I'm not. The only ones who minimise and frankly have no idea about struggles of millions of people are crypto peddlers in this thread.

I mean, you are literally saying that people in China are struggling because they cannot do currency speculation. How out of touch with real world can you be?

> Unless I'm mistaken, you seem to think that people can't/don't cash out abroad.

Yes, you are mistaken. I never, at any point in the conversation ever even talked about taking cash abroad. And since you decided to present China as an example... Have you never seen a Chinese tourist? They have no problems taking cash abroad it seems.

> I suspect you didn't notice that this is our first interaction

I honestly can't distinguish between people with identical behaviours.

> I suspect some of your anger/confusion is because you are confusing us?

I suspect my anger is because you are identical:

- you invent arguments your opponent never produced

- you have literally no understanding of the world around you. For example, an authoritarian regime is not necessarily dysfunctional, and people in authoritarian regimes don't necessarily suffer. Yet, you keep pretending it's the same things, and people necessarily suffer

- You keep pretending that the only thing people en messe care about is currencies, and are suffering if they can't buy/spend other currencies than their countries'.

And on and on and on.

This is my last post in this pointless thread. Do come back when you have learned:

- how to answer what your opponent said, not what you imagine your opponent said, and

- how the world works. Go visit China, for example.