OTOH, he's paying job may be coming first, attending to the paying back task at hand when he feels up to it.
Wonder which kind of work he might be doing, given his
modus operandi. We may find about it trailing a series of disasters.
But since he ran GLBSE just for fun, as you say, he is justified in dilapidating the capital of hundreds of ppl who trusted him. Hey: he is giving them a free lesson on life and misallocated trust. He should ask to be paid for that.