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I have so many questions I want to ask both the victim and the guy who is going to jail. For example, was he actually good at trading or hacking? In the last f
by b_tterc_p 7y ago
I have so many questions I want to ask both the victim and the guy who is going to jail. For example, was he actually good at trading or hacking?
In the last few years I have become increasingly aware of a trend where we wonder if successful people with blatant signs of being an idiot are in fact geniuses. My recent favorite being the pizza bomber woman from the aptly but honestly completely inappropriately named Netflix documentary “Evil Genius”. (I would recommend maybe two episodes and then just wikipedia’ing the rest)
I’m curious if this is Protestant work ethic fallacies in American culture or if it is prevalent elsewhere too.
- sct202 7y agoThis article says he was a crypto millionaire, which makes more sense to me with his age, wealth and computer background. https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/he-was-an-infamous-college-hacker-then-a-bitcoin-millionaire-now-hes-charged-with-depraved-murder https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/he-was-an-infamous-colle...
- closetohome 7y agoI'm not sure buying and holding bitcoin qualifies someone as...well, anything really.
- b_tterc_p 7y agoLucky?
- wolfgke 7y ago> In the last few years I have become increasingly aware of a trend where we wonder if successful people with blatant signs of being an idiot are in fact geniuses. [...] > I’m curious if this is Protestant work ethic fallacies in American culture or if it is prevalent elsewhere too. In my opinion (as a German), the reason rather lies in the fact that very smart people (by, say, IQ), (IMHO rightfully) observe that their intelligence does not lead to success. So they try to "reverse-engineer" the "true success formula". For this, it is obvious that people who are "idiots", but very successful provide good test cases to validate/disprove the "reverse-engineered success formula".