Re:Bank Run at Silicon Valley Bank
by phphphphp on Thursday March 09, 2023 @04:52PM
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Sure, and everyone knows that their favourite person in the world could just run them over in a car and kill them in seconds, but if your best friend says to you, “you know, I could drive my car into you and you would die… your life could be snuffed out with a moments notice” you may start to question your friendship.
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This situation isnt like that at all.
The relevant similarity is the *act of making* the statement is what’s problematic. In both cases the statement is true, but the act of making the true statement raises concerns.
Obviously there are important differences between the scenarios, but that critical aspect is what‘a relevant in this context.
waiter, i'd like what they're having
Well, the big difference is that the bank CEO's statement doesn't suggest that he will or could do something awful himself.
It is indeed quite common to hear aphorisms like "live every day like it's your last" which make the same point as your analogy, but remove the suggestion that the speaker could be a murderer and are thus much more analogous to the bank CEO's statement.
Re:Bank Run at Silicon Valley Bank
by xboxnolifes on Thursday March 09, 2023 @06:32PM
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Sounds like a normal conversation with my friends.
Sounds like you have a ready-made customer base for a bank in crisis.
Re:Bank Run at Silicon Valley Bank
by selimthegrim on Thursday March 09, 2023 @08:53PM
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This was basically why Saadat Hasan Manto packed up and left India for Pakistan after partition.