None of this answers any of my questions. Monero has not found a reliable way to reduce the blockchain size, period. You have alluded to some of the tricks they put in place to moderate it, but nothing they've implemented is a solution. At its core Monero is a cryptonote implementation with a few little quirks to solve some minor issues, nothing more.
Back to my original question though, how does anonymity benefit Ethereum?
Thank you for conceding you were wrong to claim Monero has nothing to offer over plain-vanilla Cryptonote/Bytecoin. You could be a bit more gracious, and admit the block reward penalty is a reliable way to reduce discourage bloat, rather than being a snipey little bitch and creating a distinction without a difference between that and "tricks to moderate it."
Regardless, your concessions are quite distinct from your previous statement that "when somebody says "monero like" ring signatures what they're really talking about is implementing Cryptonote. Monero has nothing to do with it."
Obviously, you are embarrassed to have received such a spanking for being an ignorant brat, and that's why you are moving to goalposts to a new demand for some kind of final solution to the blockchain size problem. Never mind that even Bitcoin hasn't solved it; you still think it's fair to demand another coin, with even worse bloat, be the first to fix it.
And your final act is an attempt to completely derail the thread, from the OP about ETH to a general discussion about the value of privacy.
http://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters?language=enhttp://zeroknowledgeprivacy.org/library/why-privacy-matters/People must really hate you given you're such a pompous bitch. Even when you have valid points you come off like a smug know-it-all. I guess that's why you spend all of your time here trolling trying to get people to care about your dying coin that will NEVER reach mass adoption.