I think it's one of those sunk cost fallacy. Because you put your reputation and social credit as collateral for a large expected return, you have no choice but

I think it's one of those sunk cost fallacy. Because you put your reputation and social credit as collateral for a large expected return, you have no choice but to keep living the lie. Like that aussie dude who keeps telling people he is satoshi. He told the lie for so long that he refuses the remotest possibility that he is amongst the very small minority of people he surrounded himself with that reinforces his reality. The facts don't matter to religious fanatics. They are simply pawns of sociopathic tendencies.