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If I had wanted to be dismissive I'd have written "IRE's little scam". In Dutch little is often used to indicate the core element of something, which in this case would indeed be the virtual asset sales model rather than your company being little, I reckon this isn't the case in English which has a greater emphasis on politeness?

Asians don't use the European big mother model, so big European companies are likely wary to adopt it to avoid damaging their reputation. Back in the days even charging interest was frowned down upon, which is why Jews went into banking because their religious doctrine didn't forbid the practice.

It's rather obvious that most, if not all, of the objection to the business model is cultural in origin. This however doesn't prove the attitude to be good or false. The only objective issue I can see is that IRE advertises itself as free, which could be considered dishonest, and happens to be what this thread is about.