Ben McKenzie

I mean, you mentioned Epstein earlier, but now we're finding out that Epstein was involved in funding Bitcoin development at a certain point.

Yeah, if your businesses are money laundering and human trafficking, you know, a currency that can obscure your identity is pretty valuable.

Yeah, you nailed it.

I mean, that is one of the saddest things to me, is that we wouldn't be in this place if we'd actually addressed the underlying issues and if anyone had been held accountable.

Nobody went to jail for that.

This thing that where millions of people lost their homes, where many, many people in positions of power knew better or should have known better, and nobody, not only did they not pay the price, they often got bailouts and payments to sort of cover up their losses.

And we had to pay that, you know, the American taxpayer had to do that.

Yeah.

I mean, look, you ask the question, like who likes the banks?

And nobody raises their hand.

Everyone hates banks.

Like I get that.

Right.

Banks are not.

I'm not a big fan of banks existing to begin with.

I feel like we should cut them out completely and government can just – you can have accounts.

Because banks are basically trading on the full faith and credit of the United States in the sense that – You know what?

The libertarians freak out about it, but the truth is all the banks are doing – the money that's created in our economy is mainly created in the form of loans that the banks issue.

So they have this, but they have to agree to all these rules and be regulated in a certain way.

The rules are imperfect.