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I read this book. The tone of the entire thing is “look how amazing this guy is”. If you read a book that presented Elizabeth Holmes or Bernie Madoff in this w
by jasonjmcghee 3y ago
I read this book. The tone of the entire thing is “look how amazing this guy is”.
If you read a book that presented Elizabeth Holmes or Bernie Madoff in this way, what would be your perspective?
I don’t pretend to have the facts or know for certain of anyone’s sure guilt, but a lot of the evidence is awfully damning.
(For example) Michael Lewis strongly insinuated that SBF took calculated and justifiable risk when losing track of $X00M for months at a time
- not2b 3y agoIt gets worse. Lewis is now saying that the jury should read his book, and that either the jury will acquit SBF, or they will "lynch" him. He's evidently convinced that SBF did nothing wrong. https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/111212491776903022 https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/111212491776903022
- jacquesm 3y agoI wasn't aware that reading a hagiography on the main suspect is now a requirement for jury duty. It would seem that the judge might have a thing or two to say about that.
- rurp 3y agoI haven't read the book but was inclined to give Lewis the benefit of the doubt given Matt Levine's take and Lewis' other work, but that Time interview really shifted my opinion. Lewis comes off terrible in that. The folks saying he got taken in by SBF make a lot more sense to me now.
- jononomo 3y agoTo be fair, SBF is pretty amazing.