The thing is, Bill is smart enough to know that what he said about cryptocurrencies is completely untethered from reality. He's smart enough to know that it's not crypto's fault that people use fentanyl, or that some people orchestrate terrorism. He knows that people are much more highly likely to use national, "legal" currencies when transacting for those purposes. Which means he's deliberately lying. And a lot of people will hear these types of canned arguments and do their zombie head-nod and campaign against crypto. I've already begun to see it from ordinary folks online. They didn't pull these talking points out of thin air--they got them from soundbites and blurbs in the media from "important" people like Bill Gates and Paul Krugman. If they'd actually originated the arguments themselves, they might have considered how stupid and illogical they sound, but since it came from the mouth of "authority", it doesn't require contemplation. Meh. I do feel that more and more people are becoming impervious to this bullshit--like we've taken bullshit vaccines or something.
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Yes, that is the main function of such talking heads in the engineered society - they act as 'heroes' for the masses to look up to and mimic.