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by spamizbad 1193 days ago
Sorry, but the systemic risk here is vastly overstated. Yes, this will be painful to the tech sector but they made some truly awful decisions and have to pay the piper.

We should also consider the moral hazard at play here. How are future tech CEO's going to go into work every day and completely crush it 200% if they know that the government will bail them out if their monkey jpeg startup fails? A bailout will only breed lazy entrepreneurs, taking hard-earned tax dollars away from America's job-doers.

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Dunno if you’re being intentionally tongue in cheek, but a monkey jpeg startup is pretty lazy/scammy/bs-y
I believe it is a reference to the NFT craze.

So, yes to all 3.

all I’m seeing is that the monkey jpeg startup just needs to never take VC capital from Andreesen Horowitz and then won’t be tied to using that one bank

just stick with selling directly to collectors and you already have enough money

>just stick with selling directly to collectors and you already have enough money

Uh, oh! Unregistered security...

I’ll accept that if baseball cards are securities too