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Silicon Valley’s Titans Are Realizing a Lot of People Really Don’t Like Them; A bank run led to a wake-up call for America’s most coddled class of plutocrats. (a surprisingly decent read from New Republic)
New Republic ^ | March 14, 2023 | Matt Ford

Posted on 03/14/2023 7:44:25 AM PDT by DoodleBob

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There was actually a remarkable consensus on opposing a taxpayer-funded bailout from both the right, which inexplicably blamed the collapse on “wokeness,” and the left, which is unsympathetic to wealthy Silicon Valley investors as a matter of course.
1 posted on 03/14/2023 7:44:25 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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The House should ZERO out the Budget for the Whitehouse to pay for this Billionaire Bailout


2 posted on 03/14/2023 7:49:39 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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"And then there is Silicon Valley’s culture—hyperlibertarian, hypercapitalist, and hyper-self-confident. Government regulations are something to be avoided or ignored. Unions are verboten."

Uh, no, I live here and I can definitely say that's not the culture. This USED to be the culture when Silicon Valley was great. Now, it's a bunch of phony woke virtue signalers. That's the real culture of Silicon Valley today.

3 posted on 03/14/2023 7:51:14 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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Except for the fact that it was Silicon Valley technocrats that did the run on the bank…


4 posted on 03/14/2023 7:52:33 AM PDT by Skywise
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TNR sez Silicon Valley is too right wing. Hokay. What a nutty article.


5 posted on 03/14/2023 7:53:14 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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Re: 5 - You need to practice discernment. The article had some good points, sadly they will get little traction as TNR is often a left-wing bomb thrower magazine.


6 posted on 03/14/2023 7:55:14 AM PDT by Fury
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Vaporizing that much money might have had dire implications for other parts of the American financial system—and for thousands of innocent customers who believed their money to be safe within SVB’s coffers.

Tough chit. FDIC covers the little guy’s losses. That is paid for. Socializing businesses’ loses is not capitalism. There needs to be consequences borne by the stupid chits that made poor decisions. Don’t push the payroll crap either. There are multiple ways to mitigate risk of having cash above the FDIC limit of $250k. If these eff’n people focused on business instead of being woke they would know that.

7 posted on 03/14/2023 7:59:56 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." I )
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As detestable as these people are, I think the SVB work around is a good idea.

The SVB losses so far are probably minimal, at least compared to the destruction of all value combined by massive economic fallout to the economy as SVB business depositors have going concern problems due to inability to access their working capitol and cannot make payroll.


8 posted on 03/14/2023 8:03:38 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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Agreed. I worked in Silicon Valley as a consultant in the early 90’s and on and off to my retirement. The culture certainly changed and actually became unbearable to me.


9 posted on 03/14/2023 8:04:17 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." I )
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Btt


10 posted on 03/14/2023 8:08:16 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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Correct. I’m nearing retirement and do not keep more than $250K with any single entity. Yeah, it is a little inconvenient, but no more so than diversifying your stock or bond portfolio.


11 posted on 03/14/2023 8:19:02 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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Bears reposting Angelo Codevilla's essay, although in 10 years there have been some shifts:
America’s Ruling Class

"When this majority discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their objections seriously, that decisions about their money were being made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties, and that the laws on these matters were being voted by people who had not read them, the term “political class” came into use."

One thing the political class has done a good job at is creating division to keep the people fighting each other, and fomenting tribalism. But we are seeing instances of where ideology is starting to be put aside.

Case in point: the work Naomi Wolf is doing along with volunteers that are Bannon fans with respect to the Covid 'vaccines', and her apology with respect to Joe Biden.

I think the New Republic oversimplifies the attitudes. I think both nominally "Left" and "Right" that aren't in 'the club' realize that they are being screwed by those in 'the club'. The 'Club' exploits the surface differences between thr two.
Think of Lindsey Graham's abortion stunt right before the midterms. Yes, Roe was overturned, sending the issue back to the states, but that stunt was intended to inflame the zealots on both sides of the issue to dampen the swell of MAGA candidates that would 'queer' (pun intended) the trajectory the 'Club' was on. He then goes on to vote for the 1.7 trillion omnibus, binding the House's power of the purse for most of 2023.

Hopefully, those in the 'country class' come together to put an end to it. New Republic might have their eyes half open on this, but its a start.

12 posted on 03/14/2023 8:20:50 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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‘“We’ve reached a point of political division where it’s fine to root for members of another tribe losing their bank deposits—even though you would protect members of your own tribe in the same situation,” he wrote on Twitter. “Be careful what you wish for because the shoe may soon be on the other foot.”’

Shoe’s already been on the other foot for decades, pal. That’s why we hate you.


13 posted on 03/14/2023 8:24:58 AM PDT by Boogieman
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And now to correct some of their lies and BS.

Silicon Valley’s culture—hyperlibertarian

Libertarian? Uhhh not its not and it hasn't been for a long time. Its hyper woke. Libertarians would not censor and ban and deplatform and cancel with such glee the way Big Tech has. Really, the correct description would be Fascist since they're in bed with and doing the bidding of Government.

the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has purchased Twitter, summarily fired most of its workforce, and then driven it into the ground

No he didn't. He chitcanned a lot of pampered leftist twits who weren't doing anything productive and contrary to predictions of imminent doom from Leftists, Twitter has rolled along just fine without them. He's trying to monetize things and expand Twitter's array of offerings because.....get this.....Twitter was losing $4 million per day before he bought it. He's trying to turn the company around and make it actually profitable....and not just a tool of the government.

"We’ve reached a point of political division where it’s fine to root for members of another tribe losing their bank deposits—even though you would protect members of your own tribe in the same situation,”

Leftists happily cheer on the cold blooded murder of Trump supporters Ashley Babbit and Rosanne Boyland right on video for all to see with no punishment whatsoever for their murderers who were both cops....at a time when the Left had rioted for months over supposed police brutality. Leftists are more than happy to see their political opponents de-platformed, de-banked, thrown out of homes/apartments, fired from jobs, and more for the "crime" of having a different opinion. So now you're gonna express how shocked and horrified you are that a lot of us don't mind seeing you lose your bank deposits? Cry me a river. You started it.

14 posted on 03/14/2023 8:27:21 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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I suspect Matt Ford wouldn't enjoy the FReeper Company Barbecue. But his batting average on this article is waaaay better than any utterance from Willard, Yertle, Paul Ryan, or that gasbag Billy Kristol.

I'll take the win, no matter how ugly.

15 posted on 03/14/2023 8:34:45 AM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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Over the past year, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has purchased Twitter, summarily fired most of its workforce, and then drove it into the ground.

He did? I wasn't aware that Twitter had been driven "into the ground."

16 posted on 03/14/2023 8:39:33 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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It’s insufferable mostly because how fraudulent it is. Silicon Valley in its glory days was all about merit uber alles. Anyone preaching this D.I.E. nonsense would have been laughed out of the room or worse.


17 posted on 03/14/2023 9:16:47 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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18 posted on 03/14/2023 10:02:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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On a related note...

Israeli Banks Transferred $1 Billion Out of SVB Before Collapse Times of Israel report confirms money was withdrawn before feds seized Silicon Valley Bank.

19 posted on 03/14/2023 10:03:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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The Biden administration had to take pains to explain that no taxpayer dollars would be spent to guarantee SVB’s deposits and that the money would instead come from the FDIC’s insurance fund. While true in a technical sense, that fund is replenished by fees from banks all over the country, which in turn come from the fees that Americans pay to their banks all the time. In an indirect way, we all just bailed out Silicon Valley this weekend.

Refreshing paragraph that stands up to Biden's lies... Very unusual for a liberal to tell the truth.

20 posted on 03/14/2023 10:48:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (Biden: The Banking system is safe. The borders are secure. Hunter's laptop is disinformation.)
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