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> YC doesn’t have a tech bro problem, but HN has a TechBro problem. You would know... user: TechBro8615 created: December 17, 2019 karma: 4317 about: yo yo y

> YC doesn’t have a tech bro problem, but HN has a TechBro problem. You would know... user: TechBro8615 created: December 17, 2019 karma: 4317 about: yo yo yo No, but seriously, this moniker has it's place, but at a time when we are seeing levels of inflation and costs for basic foodstuffs rising and outpacing wages why the hell aren't we seeing the CEOs of major petrol companies and food producers on the stand? VC is a pernicious Industry that is made up ofpeople who are more like Banksters than anything resembling a Techbro, so what is the goal here? To expose how the two are equally as toxic to the World economy? I just can't see what anyone gets from this theater to take it seriously. I feel this is cannon fodder for the masses to distract them from the Roe v Wade decision. It's pathetic and it shouldn't work, but just like how people flocked to see Zuck on the stand and made memes about how robotic he is: it served it's purpose.

nradov 4y ago
Congress hauled the big oil company CEOs in just a few months ago and berated them for daring to make a profit. https://energycommerce.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/hearing-on-gouged-at-the-gas-station-big-oil-and-americas-pain-at-the https://energycommerce.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings...
- Melting_Harps 4y ago
  > Congress hauled the big oil company CEOs in just a few months ago and berated them for daring to make a profit. And what did it achieve? Gas is still at obscenely priced levels at the same time that businesses are forcing people back into the office. Hence my view that it's theater more than it is a viable measure in which congress has the ability to force executives to be held accountable for their actions that compromise the national security of a nation, at a time that it is reeling from COVID and fighting a proxy war with Russia! For God's sake they were making baseball players show up to discuss steroid use, if this isn't the definition of banality then I don't know what is. This isn't about merely about making a profit, the US exports just as much oil/gas as it imports after all, it's about how favorable ties with congress/senate can be seen as things that allowed for things to go back to business as usual after a pathetic display in which no one is held accountable for what will be a reason why the US is/will go into a recession. The same thing happens in bank hearings: I fully expect their to be a similar hearing as Russia defaults on it's debt repayment after JPM and GS bought tons of Russian debt and will need a bailout, but promise to do a better job in the future.
- dingosity 4y ago
  However will he recover!? The poor darling. Being talked at all day! Will the horrors ever end!

nradov 4y ago

Congress hauled the big oil company CEOs in just a few months ago and berated them for daring to make a profit. https://energycommerce.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/hearing-on-gouged-at-the-gas-station-big-oil-and-americas-pain-at-the https://energycommerce.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings...

Melting_Harps 4y ago
> Congress hauled the big oil company CEOs in just a few months ago and berated them for daring to make a profit. And what did it achieve? Gas is still at obscenely priced levels at the same time that businesses are forcing people back into the office. Hence my view that it's theater more than it is a viable measure in which congress has the ability to force executives to be held accountable for their actions that compromise the national security of a nation, at a time that it is reeling from COVID and fighting a proxy war with Russia! For God's sake they were making baseball players show up to discuss steroid use, if this isn't the definition of banality then I don't know what is. This isn't about merely about making a profit, the US exports just as much oil/gas as it imports after all, it's about how favorable ties with congress/senate can be seen as things that allowed for things to go back to business as usual after a pathetic display in which no one is held accountable for what will be a reason why the US is/will go into a recession. The same thing happens in bank hearings: I fully expect their to be a similar hearing as Russia defaults on it's debt repayment after JPM and GS bought tons of Russian debt and will need a bailout, but promise to do a better job in the future.
dingosity 4y ago
However will he recover!? The poor darling. Being talked at all day! Will the horrors ever end!