Protecting himself while actively dooming hundreds of startups to failure

Re:Protecting himself while actively dooming hundreds of sta... by ggm on Monday March 13, 2023 @04:44AM (#35132852)

It's what everyone who becomes aware of a liquidity crisis in a bank should want, because the alternative is what Jimmy Stewart faces in "it's a wonderful life" or George Darling in "Mary Poppins"

I sat through a social media shitstorm over a bank run here in Australia and listening to randoms phoning me with a "hot tip I'll thank them for" was insane. Read other pieces on HN to see other people's "I dodged a bullet" posts: no.. you didn't dodge a bullet you were part of the magazine of bullets which brought it on.

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Re:Protecting himself while actively dooming hundreds of sta... by notbuyingit on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:13PM (#35161671)

You're implying that actors should've stared down the barrel of a loaded gun, hoped that everyone else on the line would hold, and not flinch.

Is this HN? Is this real life? These actors might collude and self-prote t each other often, but they're not a national army, theyre not some unified body. I feel like people just canNOT accept that a bunch of their peers are vultures and that by bumping elbows with them, they're complicit. But that's exactly the truth.

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