> Why is any attempt at financial privacy deemed money laundering?
Ummm. Taxes?
Money laundering is very clearly accounting fraud. If embezzlement is a crime, then money laundering is just embezzlement in reverse.
I feel like you are down an absolutist rabbithole about privacy. There are certain practical limits to privacy. You cannot blight yourself from other people's vision. You cannot operate in a society (whether it be grocery shopping, owning property, driving a car) without existing in some form. "Privacy" only makes sense in the context and is not some maximalist ideal that you can apply to any situation.
Ummm. Taxes?
Money laundering is very clearly accounting fraud. If embezzlement is a crime, then money laundering is just embezzlement in reverse.
I feel like you are down an absolutist rabbithole about privacy. There are certain practical limits to privacy. You cannot blight yourself from other people's vision. You cannot operate in a society (whether it be grocery shopping, owning property, driving a car) without existing in some form. "Privacy" only makes sense in the context and is not some maximalist ideal that you can apply to any situation.