> But how hard would you fight for this cause if it didn't benefit you personally?
Why is that odd or bad? I don't see people in here discussing issues about Syria or Congo. I saw dozens of threads about Trump and relatively none about Bolsonaaro. Why are you discussing about Fed and Biden and not thinking of economy of Pakistan? People will be more vocal and active about issues in their proximity.
It might not be odd or bad if you consider that almost everyone is selfish.
However, the fundamental problem here is that SVB lost $X billion dollars of depositors' money, and Garry et al. wanted the government i.e. taxpayers to pay for those billions instead of the depositors, hurting us for the benefit of him and his community.
This is ordinary human nature and I don't care about Peter Thiel doing that because everyone already knows he's selfish, but some others want to act like they're selfless and be celebrated for it, and I don't accept that hypocrisy. Rich people should be assumed selfish until very strongly proven otherwise.
Pakistan shoots itself in the foot in the same exact way every N years running up balance of payments, hiding foreign and military aid in Dubai and running to Saudis, IMF and China. It’s not interesting when it’s same old story.
Why is that odd or bad? I don't see people in here discussing issues about Syria or Congo. I saw dozens of threads about Trump and relatively none about Bolsonaaro. Why are you discussing about Fed and Biden and not thinking of economy of Pakistan? People will be more vocal and active about issues in their proximity.