There are three things that only God knows: the beginning of things, the cause of things (WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY???) and the end of things. - an old Welsh proverb
No, the real use of money is to serve as a medium of exchange, to ultimately be used in the service of others. Any notion of buying one's "freedom" is a delusion at best.
This is going to blow up so fast and so hard when it's released for humans, it will be the biggest fiasco since the exploding silicone in boob jobs. Said it here first.
I can't prove this, but from the looks of it, sounds like your attitude was extremely condescending toward US Customs, sufficiently enough for them to tell you to bugger out.
There's a few select things you said that would piss me off as well.
The fact that you'd been to so many countries has little to do with why they kicked you out. There are numerous people with visas overflowing on every page of their passport from every imaginable country in the world...they get in here easily.
It's just you and your demeanor, from what I was able to deduce.
He can hide behind his libertarian agenda all he wants, but instinctively he knew what he was doing was wrong at multiple levels, legally and above all, morally. Otherwise he wouldn't be operating on Tor..... or hiding anything.
...since americans will buy ice while on their arctic trip, this CEO's biggest problem in my opinion is securing free wi-fi, onboard internet access for the next digital-centric Skymall.... so that he is able to convert as many people as possible of those 70% that browse the Skymall catalog nowadays.
Given that Skymall is on just about every US-bound or intra-US flight, if this Weiss character can't insure the impulse buy of these passengers, he should be fired as soon as he can't deliver on this.
If Internet access cannot be secured on the airplanes because of whatever, then he should serve the catalog from a local server onboard the aircraft through an existing wifi or worst case, invest in onboard wifi w/the air co's.