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Monero is more about polluting and money laundering than privacy.
There is some privacy in it, but it's overshadowed by the other things.
It's an actual currency. A cryptocurrency. A private cryptocurrency.
USD stopped being a currency a longer time ago than your birth. One person tried to fix that and was infamously shot in the head for doing that.
It's literally negative value. Everyone has been tricked into thinking it has real value. The longer they accept this and don't want something that is actually real, the less their...whatever...continues to be real. You can really play Ledger and trick the Talisman of Fraud to doing and being actual value in a given scenario but that don't chain through the item itself which sheds it off the moment it leaves your hand.
The privacy bothering you invites the thorough explination by George Orwell and many others. Like a Real Magick ritual. You will lose all privacy and unable to regain it. Your soul, should you have any left, will be a slave for the angels you slaughtered way back in the day.
You thought death ended anything you thought life was. Figure it out before they abuse your very unendable existence, unendably.
We don't use USD here. Even so, USD isn't as bad a Monero, there's even privacy when using cash.
I don't think you know what you are talking about. I don't think you read very well. I'm not trying to insult you. I am not sure exactly what you are actually trying to say. Monero is the only crypto with real Privacy. Literally every other CC that tries to say they are any kind of privacy is lying. IF they're closed source, don't even mention them to me because I'm not here to educate you on how to use a computer with any sense of self respect. I don't think you understand what I really mean to say about the USD anyway. Check my soon to be posted thread.
I don't doubt Monero has decent privacy. I may have been cryptic in my latest reply, sorry.
My point is, privacy isn't the only thing that matters. IMHO a decent currency/payment system shouldn't cause signifiant harm through pollution. Also it shouldn't make it too easy to launder large amount of money, which undermine taxing/funding of things which keep society working (infrastructure, school, public health, research...).
Fiat has downsides, but all things considered it seems better than crypto. And it's possible to have privacy with fiat by using cash, so it's not as if only crypto allowed some privacy. There is also project GNU Taler that may one day provide decent privacy for online fiat payments without facilitating money laundering.
Do you know of concrete plan/solution on the horizon to solve or mitigate Monero's problems? You might not consider those big problems, but those are absolute deal killer for many.