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Silikon vodiysi sotsialisti: Sem Bankmen-Frid
"Odamlar hokimiyatni ularga narsalarni qanday baholashni aytishni xohlashadi, lekin ular bu hokimiyatni faktlar yoki natijalarga asoslanmagan holda tanlaydilar - ular buni obro'li yoki tanish bo'lgani uchun tanlaydilar."
-Maykl Lyuis, Katta qisqa.
Mashhur yozuvchi Maykl Lyuis o'zining kitobini nashr etdi, Cheksiz borish: yangi magnatning yuksalishi va qulashi, on the rise and fall of FTX on the first day of the trial of its notorious founder Sam Bankman-Fried (Bankman-Fried). The book has met with heavy criticism by commentators for its seemingly favorable portrayal of the millennial crypto founder.
Bu kulgili, chunki Bankmen-Fridning hikoyasi juda eski maktabdir. Katta qisqa- o'z manfaatlari yo'lida jamiyatimizning odamlar haqida o'z tajribasiga ko'ra emas, balki "faktlar"ga asoslanib baho berishga moyilligidan foydalangan imtiyozli aktyor haqidagi ajoyib hikoya. evristika va "murakkab" odamlardan ma'qullash.
Bankmen-Fridning biz ishonadigan odamlarni jamiyatimizning "aqlli odamlari" ekanligiga ishontirish qobiliyati, jumladan Lyuis ham g'alati. Lekin nega ular unga ergashishdi?
Ehtimol, bu Bankmen-Frid ular tushunadigan odam bo'lganligi uchundir. U insayder edi, u ham xuddi ular kabi kriptoni oziqlantirish uchun ekotizim emas, balki ular foydalanishi mumkin bo'lgan jamiyat sifatida ko'rdi.
Kripto mustamlakachilik
Fortune Magazine in ularning profili of Bankman-Fried, wrote that the Bay Area native doesn’t look like the most powerful man in crypto. But is that really true?
If anything, a 20-something year-old man oozing social awkwardness, an MIT degree, and poor fashion-sense is the wet dream of many a modern “sophisticated” tech investor. Bankman-Fried could easily be a character on the HBO show Silikon vodiysi
Endi buni uning tug'ma huquqi bilan birlashtiring - zamonaviy savdo bazilikasida huquq professori bo'lgan ikkita ota-onasi - Stenford universiteti va sizda zamonaviy kapitalizmning deyarli masihiy shaxsi bor.
One need not look further than the praise given to him by Kevin O’Leary, saying “I'm a big advocate for Sam because he has two parents that are compliance lawyers." the Shark Tank investor said 2022 yilda.
O’Leary continued: “If there's ever a place I could be that I'm not going to get in trouble, it's going to be at FTX.” We later found out that the Canadian investor was paid close to a million dollars an hour to be a public spokesperson for Bankman-Fried.
Ammo Bankmen-Fridning insoflaridan tashqari, investorning e'tiborini tortgan haqiqiy savdo nuqtasi Bankmen-Fridning missiyasi edi.
Yo'q "samarali altruizm" –– zamonaviy, soxta empatik harakatlarga obuna bo'lish, albatta, elita moliyachilari uchun yaxshi marketing harakatidir. Ammo, uning sarmoyadorlarini hayajonga solgan narsa uning kriptoni qurishga arziydigan jiddiy sanoat emas, balki qimor o'yinchilaridan ko'p pul olish uchun ajoyib imkoniyat ekanligiga ishonish edi.
As a Sequoia Capital’s venture capitalist put it in a now deleted profile on Bankman-Fried, “Yes, crypto eventually could replace money, and, yes, it can eventually decentralize the web,” the investor said.
U davom etdi: “Ammo bularning barchasi bugungi kunda haqiqat emas. Xo'sh, bugungi kunda odamlar nima qilmoqdalar? Ular savdo qiladilar. Va agar odamlar savdo qilsalar va odamlar savdo qilishni yaxshi ko'rsalar, tonna pul oladigan biznes modeli qanday? Bu almashish bo'lardi."
Ushbu iqtibos Bankman-Fried investorlari kripto hamjamiyatiga jiddiy qarashmaganligini ko'rsatadi. Ular uchun kriptoning o‘zi ham Vegas kazinosidagi slot mashinasida ketma-ket uchta gilos to‘plamini olish bilan bir xil ijtimoiy ahamiyatga ega. Gilos fotosuratlaridan ko'ra kazinoga sarmoya kiritgan ma'qul.
Agree or disagree with them, the crypto, and specifically the bitcoin subsection, of the community is serious with their goals. They are largely a set of libertarian, hyper-principled people. They are profoundly serious about their view on how blockchains can be used to liberate the currently unbanked, protect the value of one’s labor from ever increasing inflation, and connect people around the world through payments, and specifically remove government interference in money.
As Erik Voorhees’ puts it –– in what is now one of the final debates with Bankman-Fried –– “what we are doing here is in effect bringing the same separation that occurred between church and state to state and payments. In effect freeing people around the world.”
The earnesty of belief held by people like Voorhees doesn’t compute for people like Sequoia VC or Bankman-Fried. For them those beliefs were useful in that they got a community to work hard for close to no reward until the first few bitcoin bull runs. But the belief itself? For the jaded elite, a company mission often is a means to a single end: Enrich one’s bank account.
Ular uchun missiya "xayriya" qilish yoki pechak ligasi qabul bo'limi xodimiga yaxshi ko'rinish uchun o'rta maktabda xizmat safariga borish kabi muhimdir. Bu shunchaki "o'yin" ning bir qismi.
This is quite problematic, since their investments in immature crypto companies –– and overall childish behavior, like when FTX ko'tarildi $420,690,000 from 69 investors –– is a large part of the reason the “crypto” industry isn’t respected by the general public.
Moreover, Bankman-Fried regularly made statements criticizing bitcoin, for being “slow, and bulky.” Keep in mind, the bitcoin community not only birthed crypto, but are –– for better or worse –– perhaps the most ideologically pure people in technology.
Moreover, Bankman-Fried sought to influence legislation that would impact the earnest bitcoin. Since he was –– prior to FTX’s collapse –– one of the biggest Washington donors, he likely would succeed in lobbying the government to follow his view.
But this here is a form of colonization. The crypto community was a vibrant ecosystem prior to Bankman-Fried’s entry. It was a bunch of misfits that came together to build something that was unique and important. A chance to feel empowered in a system they feel marginalized in. For Bankman-Fried and his cohorts to come into it aiming to make a percentage off of the trading fees of investors –– rather than create products and businesses in the ethos of bitcoin –– was their original sin.
Oxir-oqibat parchalanib ketganiga hayron bo'lishimiz kerakmi?
Silikon sotsialist
In a similar vein to a young child who asks “why doesn’t the government just print more money and give it to the homeless?” –– Bankman-Fried’s claim to fame was to make a lot of money and give it away. Like some benevolent patrician. Andrew Carnegie in board shorts.
Ammo bu haqiqatan ham xayriya uchun haqiqiy turtkimi yoki uning hamdardligi ijtimoiy kapitalini oshirish uchun qandaydir o'yin strategiyasi edi?
In a phone call with crypto reporter Tiffany Fong, Bankman-Fried said that he donated as much money to Republicans as he did Democrats, but did so quietly in order to gain favor with journalists who he felt were predominantly left wing. In other words, Bankman-Fried manufactured a public persona of humanitarianism, but in reality his raison d'être was to gain more power and clout
His former business partner Anthony Scaramucci dedi he saw Bankman-Fried as having a sort of “superiority complex.” So, perhaps in Bankman-Fried’s head he thought that he could single-handedly solve all of the world’s problems if only he had all of the money.
Whatever the truth may be –– what is it that made Bankman-Fried think that he had the right to use other’s money at his own discretion? Or for him to enter a space that he, once again, had close to nothing to do with creating. What made him think that he should be the authority who decides what aspects are kosher or haram? Or write legislation for it?
At its core is a belief he was the smartest person in the room. A belief certainly had the innate privilege to feel given his parents’ societal standing, and his undeniable analytical wit. But, what was missing in the matrix of Bankman-Fried was a soul. A soul that would allow for him to truly respect community that he was entering as a stranger.
Tarix Bankmen-Fridga o'xshash odamlarning misollari bilan to'la, ular hokimiyat tepasiga yangi, yanada adolatli utopiya boshqaruvchisi bo'lishga va'da berishgan. Qachonki, aslida, ular izlayotgan asosiy o'zgarish hokimiyatda bo'lishdir. Bankmen-Frid bu timsolni oldi va Silikon vodiysi madaniyatiga sepildi.
As Michael Lewis writes, for Bankman-Fried, most of life is just some kind of game. One which –– if most legal experts to'g'ri –– he won’t be getting any restarts on.
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