• pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
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    1 year ago

    Yet people do the same thing with literal U.S. dollars and we think nothing of it when banks lose billions gambling our money in the stock market. 🤔

    Or open credit cards in their customers’ names without their consent.

    Or tear down whole economies with no consequences. Or take almost complete control of the housing market and turn Americans into serfs. Or…

    Strange, that that fat fuck is only being held accountable because he used bitcoins to do the same things banks do on the regular. Strange indeed…

    • SomeRandomWords@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      People absolutely think something about it when it happens, and hell sometimes the government even does something about it (as demonstrated in the article you linked). Just a whole lot of us would argue they don’t do enough about it.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not actually defending Sam Bankman-Fried. I’m pointing out the obvious hypocrisy in the system. Both that fat fuck and actual bank execs need to waste away in prison cells.