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Discussion on: Discussing the launch of Libra, "A new global currency"

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Cécile Lebleu

Coming to from a 3rd world country, I’m still not buying. There is absolutely nothing in it for “us”, no possibilities beyond what we can already do. A lot better than relying on a foreign game coin (because it’s not much more than that) would be to actually pay taxes, as we already do, and develop these countries, as we are already doing, since the 1st/3rd world classification exists.
Say tomorrow everybody in X developing country moves to FaceBucks. What happens? The country is broke, there is no money for streets, safety, health systems, etc. Instead of helping the poor country, it’s destroying it, and giving all the profits and data to BigCo instead.
People in developing countries don’t need more opportunities via internet coins, they need their country to develop. And that’s only done through local commerce, startups, entrepreneurs, and fair international business (which a mostly American big corporation owned coin isn’t)