I think people have forgotten that depositor bailouts are not just free money, but money taken from other people. There's a balance between minimizing the pain

I think people have forgotten that depositor bailouts are not just free money, but money taken from other people. There's a balance between minimizing the pain to depositors and minimizing the pain to the rest of society by not only taking money from them, but creating an environment where people don't have to care about where they put their money and thus have no reason to demand the people they trust with their money not act like reckless assholes. Corrupting the entire concept of risk vs reward would destroy us all.