So many of these people are just very young and getting in contact with the real grown-up world of money for the first time. They keep that teenage mindset of "you can't tell me what to do!" to which the bank replies "fuck off" politely.

Edit just read a bit more, and it's amazing how many commenters who live in some of the most free and prosperous countries in the world dare to compare themselves to actual serfs.

took a while for him to admit it was crypto too

It’s hard to empathize with somebody who feels “violated” by small talk.

How dare these intellectual lightweights ask me to explain things which should be obvious, or talk about nothing, stop wasting my time im doing important things. Like coding javascript, or improving my KTD scores.

Big Karen energy.

P.S. money laundering is fascinating.

So annoying. There are good conversations to have about overreach and surveillance but dude, organised crime is fucking terrifying and AML is good actually.

I like buying drugs, I think there are probably kinds of crimes that shouldn't be prosecutable by evidence discovered using methods intended to stop truly evil shit and we should probably talk about that. These people though, it's always something stupid they coyly hide while acting like it's some giant assault on their rights to be interviewed in order to establish they're not trafficking arms or something.

It doesn't make for a good case. I don't think trading in crypto is inherently less moral than like buying shares in shell and some of the freak outs about it are knee jerk moral panics (seriously though please stop speculating using my ketamine coins? I just want to treat my depression) but it's dumb to get so worked up about being asked a few questions when it looks absolutely sus as hell. If I walk down the street carrying a gun bag (full of flowers, the shape is convenient) in a balaclava (the wind dehydrates my skin) it's not a fucking assault on my rights if someone asks me to show them there isn't a rifle in my bag.