Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
by berniedurfee on Thursday March 28, 2024 @07:10PM
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Madoff was in his 60s.
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
by thfuran on Friday March 29, 2024 @11:38AM
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And people probably weren't calling him a kid.
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
by lupire on Thursday March 28, 2024 @09:44PM
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Why is playing a video game worse than a "3 martini lunch" or flying Tom Epstein Island?
Finance is bad boys top to bottom, of all ages.
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
by LaurensBER on Friday March 29, 2024 @05:05AM
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Finance is about money, that's going to attract some people that are motivated purely by money. That's a bad thing and the culture in any institution should discourage this.
Yet at the same time finance is a big industry, there's plenty of honest, hardworking people that do their 9 to 5 (or more realistically 8 to 7) and go home to their kids. Finance has bad apples (just like tech) but I don't think we should write off the entire industry for that.
"Kid" is meant to be derogatory, highlighting the absurdity of traditional investors trusting openly irresponsible people with such little experience in such a heavily experience and regulation dependent field like finance. They behaved like spoiled children, with all the drugs and sex going around within the company, gaming while talking to investors etc. It doesn't make SBF look better.