In season 2 episode 3 of Mike Judge’s comedy tv series Silicon Valley the satirical amalgamation of tech billionaires, Gavin Belson, has a warning for us all. The treatment of Billionaires in America is basically the Holocaust. Roll clip.
Well Wednesday was quite the spicy display of life imitating satire. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong compares the Billionaire plight to that of “successful CEOs in China”. Because as we all know even the hint of regulatory oversight is pretty much the same thing as getting disappeared for 3 months.
Fun little TIL. The Gavin Belson bit was a spoof on venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ letter to the Wall Street Journal. Where he writes, and I shit you not, “I would call attention to parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its one percent, namely the Jews to the progressive war on the American one percent”.