Well for instance you may work on an artificial means of exchange that derives value from marketing to its member that they'll get rich if only they convince mo

Well for instance you may work on an artificial means of exchange that derives value from marketing to its member that they'll get rich if only they convince more people to use it. It's like working as a food expert at Herbalife. Sure it must be interesting to invent new receipe, but can you really Van Braun your way out of what misery you're helping produce just because it s fun to optimise the Haskell compiler ? Another way to say it: project yourself 5/10 years in the future and the entire thing collapsed. Everyone knows where you work and what you contributed to: was it worth it, net? Did you learn more than the suicide rate of the people losing their savings cost ? You can leave now, imagine you're an employee of Theranos a year before Carreyrou.