<story><title>How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?</title><url>https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/how-did-sam-bankman-fried-get-bail</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmk</author><text>What resources are the rich hoarding? Does Elon Musk own 500 pairs of pants that could otherwise have clothed other poor men? Is he hoarding 500 tons of grain that should be released to starving country? He burns tons of jet fuel, literally, but so do an equivalent load of 300 vacationers on a jet to a holiday destination (and they do not produce the same GDP increase, to boot). Is Jeff Bezos monopolizing the  I-5 freeway, SeaTac airport, or clean air in Seattle? What are these resources that are being &amp;#x27;hoarded&amp;#x27; by the rich and denied to poor people exactly? And how is an average American living in a 2000 sq ft house &amp;#x27;hoarding&amp;#x27; a resource a homeless person could be living in? Should the average American take in a homeless person so that his &amp;#x27;hoarding&amp;#x27; of resources is lessened or alleviated?</text></item><item><author>rolenthedeep</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s difficult to share resources with the poor when the rich are hoarding the vast majority of those resources.&lt;p&gt;We need both.</text></item><item><author>parineum</author><text>I think this attitude of, instead of raising the bottom, lowering the top comes from a desire to punish rich people rather than help poor people.&lt;p&gt;I think these people would prefer everyone sit on rocks rather than poor people sit in wooden chairs while rich people had leather couches.</text></item><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>The problem isn&amp;#x27;t that a rich guy can make bail. The real issue is that so many poor people are trapped by bail bonds they can not meet or which put extreme financial strain on a family that is barely making it to begin with.&lt;p&gt;Part of it is that the bail bond industry can afford lobbyists, and probably a bigger part is that &amp;quot;tough on crime&amp;quot; grandstanding by politicians is nearly always a winning strategy. It is too easy to claim a politician that advances any kind of reform will be pilloried as someone who is trying to put savage criminals back on the street, your street.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radicaldreamer</author><text>They’re hoarding capital instead of distributing it to their workers. Furthermore, they’re utilizing shared resources for their companies profit without paying proportionally.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?</title><url>https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/how-did-sam-bankman-fried-get-bail</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmk</author><text>What resources are the rich hoarding? Does Elon Musk own 500 pairs of pants that could otherwise have clothed other poor men? Is he hoarding 500 tons of grain that should be released to starving country? He burns tons of jet fuel, literally, but so do an equivalent load of 300 vacationers on a jet to a holiday destination (and they do not produce the same GDP increase, to boot). Is Jeff Bezos monopolizing the  I-5 freeway, SeaTac airport, or clean air in Seattle? What are these resources that are being &amp;#x27;hoarded&amp;#x27; by the rich and denied to poor people exactly? And how is an average American living in a 2000 sq ft house &amp;#x27;hoarding&amp;#x27; a resource a homeless person could be living in? Should the average American take in a homeless person so that his &amp;#x27;hoarding&amp;#x27; of resources is lessened or alleviated?</text></item><item><author>rolenthedeep</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s difficult to share resources with the poor when the rich are hoarding the vast majority of those resources.&lt;p&gt;We need both.</text></item><item><author>parineum</author><text>I think this attitude of, instead of raising the bottom, lowering the top comes from a desire to punish rich people rather than help poor people.&lt;p&gt;I think these people would prefer everyone sit on rocks rather than poor people sit in wooden chairs while rich people had leather couches.</text></item><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>The problem isn&amp;#x27;t that a rich guy can make bail. The real issue is that so many poor people are trapped by bail bonds they can not meet or which put extreme financial strain on a family that is barely making it to begin with.&lt;p&gt;Part of it is that the bail bond industry can afford lobbyists, and probably a bigger part is that &amp;quot;tough on crime&amp;quot; grandstanding by politicians is nearly always a winning strategy. It is too easy to claim a politician that advances any kind of reform will be pilloried as someone who is trying to put savage criminals back on the street, your street.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kuhewa</author><text>Your defense of Elon not hoarding resources included his burning the jet fuel of 300 vacationers, routinely. Interesting choice of counter example.</text></comment>