4 ms·
It's unfortunately a much more convenient narrative than blaming the people that actually benefitted the most (i.e., bank CEOs). "This is part of the reason I
by AndyMcConachie 9y ago
It's unfortunately a much more convenient narrative than blaming the people that actually benefitted the most (i.e., bank CEOs).
"This is part of the reason I love Hayes as a central character for this book — because he’s not your cookie-cutter banker out of central casting. This is a guy who is much happier going home after a day of work and having a bucket of fried chicken and an orange juice and watching Seinfeld reruns than he is going out to Michelin-starred restaurants or a swanky club. To me, his massive social awkwardness — the fact that he would go to a dinner party, and sit next to a stranger, and start talking to her very loudly about his dandruff problem — he had no idea how to behave in normal society."
Political and cultural ostracism has real world consequences. They've found their scapegoat and they're piling on. It's pretty disgusting actually.
- kbart 9y agoI partly blame media for that as well, because they tend to portray movie-like evil minded geniuses that are probably more appealing and easier to grasp for general reader than methodical, faceless, industrious scams and legal gray areas. This can be seen even more so in politics.
- jjoonathan 9y agoCaptain America punches Campaign Finance in the face, freeing the American people from the grip of expanding monopolies and anti-consumer practices!
- rhizome 9y agoThe media ain't what caps on RMS in every HN thread in which he is mentioned.
- bradleyjg 9y ago> Political and cultural ostracism has real world consequences. They've found their scapegoat and they're piling on. It's pretty disgusting actually. Why are you so sure he isn't responsible? Is it impossible for a mildly autistic mathematician that likes fried chicken and is socially awkward to have committed any crimes?
- huebnerob 9y agoNot sure why you've decided to pick at this point, even the article itself says multiple times that he's far from innocent in all this, but it also seems obvious that he was not the lone-wolf mastermind of an enormous financial scandal spanning many countries and multi-billion dollar companies. It's possible to look at the narrative around a certain character in a story and intuit that something doesn't make a ton of sense, like in this case, why would someone who's doing well in life and enjoys the simple things, risk everything for gains they don't even care much about?