Dinner Seating

For my dinner table, there are a variety of reasons for why these different issues in my paper are sitting where they are. First and most obviously, the issue of illegal activity associated with cryptocurrency is sitting at a far end of the table, far away from almost every issue. The issues sitting near it, legality and privacy, have bad relations with it as illegal activity harm the goals of both privacy and legality for cryptocurrency. Regulation also is seated far away and has a bad issue with illegal activity, but also has a grudge with privacy. Their issue is that heavy regulation often erodes privacy in the name of security, creating tension between the two. Innovation has a mixed relationship with both regulation and privacy for various reasons. For regulation, innovation with cryptocurreny makes it a challenge to create strong regulations with technology that is always changing, but also provides the means to help make these regulations with its new technology. With privacy, innovation provides new opportunity but also helps further erode privacy, prompting a love-hate relationship. While these two relationships are rock, innovation has very good relations with economic impact, which in turn has good relations with stability and by extension regulation. The reasoning for this is that these issues connect well with each other, helping provide stability and growing the market with regulations to prevent market crashes and keep it stable, which helps to increase its economic impact. As it can be seen, my dinner seating is complex and full of different relationships, all being forced to sit together in what is surely an uncomfortable setting for them all.