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Having a net worth of ~$474 million just isn't enough for some people, I guess.
by hereme888 7mo ago
Having a net worth of ~$474 million just isn't enough for some people, I guess.
- avidruntime 7mo agoMICE is the acronym for categorizing the common motivations for espionage: M - Money/Greed I - Ideology/Divided Loyalty C - Coercion/Compromise E - Ego Sometimes, I think we look at people who are this wealthy and think they should be immune to these kinds of shenanigans, but I'd wager that the -ICE becomes even easier to exploit in people once they no longer need money, if they were already susceptible to it to begin with.
- jacquesm 7mo agoI wonder which of these the intelligence services prefer. Every one of them has their own advantages and drawbacks in terms of predictability, reliability, long term stability and chances of double dipping/playing both sides.
- driftnet 7mo agoMost of these assets are not super spies. They have access to one particular type of information and the adversary squeezes all they can until all the juice is gone. Sophisticated espionage and double agents only exist in le Carre novels now.
- gzread 7mo agoYou have to be greed motivated to become wealthy at all. People don't get there by being satisfied with a few million, there's a selection effect.
- WarmWash 7mo agoUltra wealthy people are not in it for money. They like the game, and the money is a side effect. Many are willing to cheat evidently too.
- hereme888 7mo agointeresting insight
- WarmWash 7mo agoPeople are commonly in it for the money, so they naturally project this on the ultra-wealthy. But you will (almost) never get to ultra-wealthy status without some other external drive. Everyone else hits $20M, set for life, checks out and retires. All these billionaires are unfathomably rich, and still slamming 60-80hr work weeks. They are not in it for the money.
- 0xy 7mo agoMore likely he was subject to blackmail or threats by the CCP.