Seychelles had some legal changes in recent years that has made it much less attractive for such activity.
Strange as it may seem, the US is now one of the best countries for money laundering, particularly a few states that are very business-friendly, like Delaware.
It's true. There's a whole Planet Money episode about this somewhere in their archives; I think Economics Explained on YouTube also touches on this. Shell corps are the way to go (not that I would know, of course).
Episode 390: We Set Up An Offshore Company In A Tax Haven
It's been a long time, but remember thinking how well done it was. TLDR was (as previous poster mentioned) that Delaware corps were best for anonymity.
In BC our GDP is 1/5 real estate. It’s surreal. I’m willing to be wrong, but my spider senses tell me a whole lot of weird stuff is going on in that sector.
Alt headline: Crazed military contractor teams up with public university to torture animals in the name of science.
"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man." -Schopenhauer
> 2. Assume good faith until iron-clad evidence to the contrary (X years later). Then after that, of course, in any new scenario keep assuming good faith because there has been no FOIA or release of declassified documents yet
A lot of Americans suffer from "lazy decency bias". It allows for the worst of humanity to regularly skate for some heinous actions.
That's a nice article, and thanks for linking to it, definite upvote, though it is sloppy with words, as "creation" above refers to issuing currency, not creating it.
Here's where money is physically created, somewhat of a curious point since so much of transacted 'money' is digital, and perhaps why the article above misleadingly says "creates".
That's fair, according to the Walter Isaacson biography, that just came out, Elon Musk left home with very little money, and made everything on his own. He didn't really receive any material support from his family. When his mother and brother joined him, she had to work three jobs to support them.
There are a lot of memes accusing Musk of nepotism, and inheriting his wealth, but that simply is not true
He received $28k from his father and $10k from his mother - in 1995 dollars that is not an insignificant amount of money. But, as far as I know, I agree that it feels false to paint him as someone who succeeded because of generational wealth.
Elon came from a very privileged background. Of late, he's been trying to spin his bio as as plucky guy with little money. His family was upper middle class. Poor little rich boy.
Thanks for mentioning this but would be more useful to provide some context here.
This works via WebRTC, and since the wtrc package for node.js is not well maintained, the CLI for drop.lol has been abandoned. Therefore croc solves a huge problem that I can't solve in drop.lol right now.
For anyone who needs a web application, this should work though.
(Although: I've stumbled upon a really good implementation of WebRTC in pure Rust, so I might end up trying to get it working with that or even trying to port that to node.js somehow)
