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There has to be a term for putting empty labels on something in attempt to try to make it false.

Calling something 'pseudo-intellectual' or 'paranoia' say absolutely nothing about the statement. It says that you are not able to form clear arguments and instead resort to negative labels.

Why is Basic Income such a popular topic on Hacker News?

It's used in a negative sense when liberals don't like the outcome of a direct democratic decision.

Also relevant - Veritasium: Facebook Fraud [1]

  [1]  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag

Limits vary based on your bank, card type (debit vs credit), account type (personal vs. business) and what you're doing with the money (withdrawing cash vs. spending online). You can also ask to increase the limit. People can also get multiple cards and use them for online payments.

  ... limit of $2k USD per day.

AWS and AdWords both accept cards and people spend a lot of money there. Online accommodation booking can cost more than $2k and people have no problems doing it.

If you have items with high prices, just send users a quick notification to check whether their cards have a limit and to ask their bank to lift it.

I have stopped using Facebook (Twitter and everything social) half a decade ago. I don't use messaging apps and turn on my phone only when I really need to.

Result: more free time to do interesting and productive things and people aren't bothering me as much. I have taken control of my life and I'm not being pushed around to do things based on notifications or desire for artificial status(likes, retweet, stars). Stop using these services that sell your privacy, control your communication, make hostile changes and in the end do not care about you.

Then use Braintree for cards and Stripe for ACH.

ACH is cheaper than cards, but it's also slower and has a limit of $10,000 per transaction [1]. Cards have a limit of $1 million per transaction [2], which is 100x bigger than ACH. Also, people are used to paying with cards.

  [1] https://support.stripe.com/questions/accepting-ach-payments-with-stripe
  [2] https://support.stripe.com/questions/what-is-the-maximum-amount-i-can-charge-with-stripe

That's why you go with Braintree.

  They offer $50k in processing fee-free, which saves you ~ $1500 immediately.

  Their fee for currency conversion is 1%, while Stripe's is 2%.

  They reply much faster to email inquires and you can call them.

  They support more countries than Stripe.

They got there by people telling everyone around them to join (same with WhatsApp, Snapchat etc.). Company just keepes the sites/apps running, but when it comes to building network effects - that is something people do themselves.

This is cargo-culting. Do you really think FB's success is due to frequent lockdowns? They are successful because they've got network effects, people are used to using their site/app and there is no incentive for people to switch - it's already free, you can't go lower than that.

Communists have been saying neoliberalism(nonsense term, which serves as an insult)/capitalism is going to fall, but it ain't happening. It's stronger than ever. They're like Christians expecting rapture.