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Two Antithetical Billionaires

https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/14/two-antithetical-billionaires/

Before the midterm November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a
left-wing billionaire heartthrob.

He properly grew up on the Stanford campus, where his parents were
well-known left-wing activist law professors. He went to a tony prep
school and on to MIT.

Bankman-Fried mocked society’s bourgeois capitalist conventions by
dressing and looking like a slob in cut-offs and T-shirts.

Indeed, he bested the nose-ring, Charles Manson-esque appearance of
former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. He outdid the all-black, Steve Jobs
copy-cat get-up of another fallen leftist icon, the now-convicted
felon Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos infamy.

The Left canonized Bankman-Fried for the hundreds of millions of
dollars he created out of thin air and channeled to left-wing
congressional and state candidates, Joe Biden, and a host of
“progressive” causes under the cool slogan “effective altruism.”

For decades hence—or so Bankman-Fried promised—his cryptocurrency
company FTX would churn out billions. Its politically correct gifting
won exemptions from the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and
Exchange Commission, and Democratic-controlled congressional oversight
committees.

The loud-talking, left-wing slob promised billions of dollars more in
gifts to come. He was knighted as the successor to the kindred
financial market manipulator and progressive “philanthropist” George
Soros.

SBF may have been a sloppy, immature fool, but he was no dummy.

He had learned early on that loud leftist talk, big promises of
philanthropy, and huge cash infusions to the media and leftist
candidates—all under the veneer of “effective altruism”— ensured de
facto immunity for his Ponzi schemes from both bad press and
government investigation.

Then, suddenly, the midterms were over. Powerful financial interests
were screaming their millions had vanished at the hands of SBF.

The Republicans took the House. They promised embarrassing hearings,
with Bankman-Fried the loose-talking star villain. And so—presto!—he
was finally indicted by the Biden Department of Justice.

Bankman-Fried, in desperation one last time, had turned to his old
props of raggedy dress, nerd talk, and contrived naivete.

His schtick no longer worked. Too many leftists were embarrassed that
they got too much money from him. Too many exposed “regulators” had
known what this wannabe Madoff character was up to before the
midterms.

The now albatross Bankman-Fried was loud and everywhere, then suddenly
not—and won’t be again.

In contrast, consider how the Left now despises Elon Musk as much as
it once worshiped Sam Bankman-Fried.

Musk once mixed vaguely liberal politics with a David-versus-Goliath
self-confidence, as he took on Big Auto and Big Space—and won.

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But then he turned to Twitter and Big Tech. Or, rather, Musk realized
Silicon Valley was no longer the irreverent embryo of boy geniuses he
remembers from his youth, which outsmarted and preempted the global
technology establishment.

Instead, it had become a dreary, constipated place of hard-core,
uncompromising leftists in need of a shake-up.

Tech moguls used their billions, their monopolies, and their
exemptions from oversight to warp the way Americans searched the
Internet, communicated with each other, voted, and accessed the
news—all in service to left-wing causes.

Musk’s mortal sin was not just buying the money-losing Twitter and
reinventing it as a free-speech platform.

It was not even exposing the company’s rot of a lazy, overstaffed,
woke, and pampered workforce and its giddiness in censoring free
expression and wounding the public careers of any who challenged the
status quo.

Musk’s crime was far worse.

First, was the sin of betrayal. A month ago, all those Teslas on the
streets of Palo Alto, Austin, and Cambridge were virtue-signaling
proof of green moral superiority. Then suddenly, these still wonderful
cars are seen as fuel for the prince of darkness.

Musk, of all people, now the progressive apostate, would dare to end
Twitter as a left-wing bulwark. And he promised to flip this
time-tried Pravda to host anyone to say what he pleased.

Second, Musk doesn’t much care that the Left hates him. No doubt he
regrets the billions he paid for the overpriced, money-losing company.

No doubt he frets that Tesla may lose sales once yuppies and greens
trade in their Tesla amulets as if they were now some godforsaken
gas-guzzling SUVs.

But otherwise, Musk has the resources, the youth, genius, and the
energy to do to social media what he did to the space and automobile
industries: revolutionize it, open it up to keener competition, and to
reject stifling orthodoxy.

How sad that the Left despises a man who built real things against the
odds and took risks to champion free speech. And how predictable it
worshiped a leftist fraud who bilked a million investors and ruined
the lives of thousands.

The hatred of the accomplished Musk and the worship of the hollow man
Bankman-Fried are sad commentaries on how liberalism has descended
into progressivism and ultimately into Stalinism.