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i know it's been said before but why did anyone ever think this guy was responsible enough to handle all that fucking "money"
by efficax 3y ago
i know it's been said before but why did anyone ever think this guy was responsible enough to handle all that fucking "money"
- krona 3y agoHe stood on stage with all the right people said all the right shibboleths!
- BSEdlMMldESB 3y agoshould have been a politician!
- dontupvoteme 3y agoand critically had the right background.
- thatsagreatcomm 3y agoWell-spoken and connected dude with MIT and Jane Street on his resume
- cj 3y agoTalking to Jim Cramer on CNBC with 8 computer monitors behind him. Super articulate kid who got in with the right crowd.
- Waterluvian 3y agoA high charisma stat can get you far until someone calls your bluff and you actually have to fight and know stuff.
- Freedom2 3y agoAppropriate, given the recent release of Baldurs Gate 3! Bravo for the comment.
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y agoBut he knows his stuff, he's unethical and deliberately negligent, not incompetent.
- Waterluvian 3y agoThen why’s he behaving with such incompetence throughout this entire prosecution?
- squeaky-clean 3y agoHe's technically competent. But he also seems to think the entire world works like computers do.
- cdchn 3y agoSame reason he sucks at League, he isn't good at everything.
- nabla9 3y ago> Talking to Jim Cramer Talking to TV-personality and confidence man who made up his successful trading record should not result more credibility, but less.
- hluska 3y agoThe rise of Jim Cramer absolutely baffles me. His RoR is freakishly low - I have a savings account (with government backed deposit insurance) that performs roughly as well as his choices. The rational play is to ignore him. But for some reason, dude has become something of a shitty king maker. I’m trying to make a joke about putting cats like SBF on the throne in an outhouse but can’t pull anything together.
- caminante 3y agoExcept there are thousands (at least) of people in that set. You're not doing his cult of personality operation justice.
- jeron 3y agoCult of personality and appetite for risk, legal or not
- 1123581321 3y agoThe same puzzle-crunching brain looked good on the way up. It's like The Luck of Barry Lyndon.
- ren_engineer 3y agowell-connected and lack of ethics allowed him to build up a reputation and take risks that others wouldn't. He basically a mix of Madoff and Elizabeth Holmes, everybody loves hyping up a young prodigy type
- jamil7 3y agoMix in right place, right time plus a bunch of amphetamines and you have your answer.
- taberiand 3y agoI figure the people giving him their money were just betting they were in at the relative top of the Ponzi. Everyone knows these are scams, they're just hoping to hit the jackpot and drop the bag on some other sucker before it all falls apart.
- imiric 3y agoFor the same reason morally bankrupt people are elected in politics, or in any leadership role. Connections, charisma, money, power, lies, and the willingness of people to believe and follow them blindly, or the desire to join them on the ride.
- rqtwteye 3y agoI remember seeing an interview and I thought how creepy he came across.