So ...
Just flow with me here for a sec... What if this whole FTX thing was really a set-up. Powers that be come in... got SB-F hooked on SOMETHING. Have you seen the videos of him vibrating like a diesel engine? Then nudge him further and further into the red 'till they set up the collapse. Have legislation ready in the countries they control to try to bring the whole thing down over a few weeks...
Nah. Just a ponzi prolly.
I'm just going to quote this from time to time until I either come out dead wrong, or...
Well let's hope for dead wrong.
Occam's razor says that greed and stupidity of hoi polloi is far more powerful than any lizard conspiracy could hope to be.
Not this time.
I just read
an article about this "Effective Altruism" movement and I don't think you can even dissect this particular event with Occam's razor without cutting yourself in the process. The "hoi palloi" got nothing on these fuckin' unstable freaks-on-crank trying to maximize "good" without even knowing what "good" looks like. Not only did they belong to an elitist organization (who, for the most part, look specifically like turtles with bad teeth rather than the more general "reptilian" description) but they were also able to garner a membership into a global cabal of other "reptilians" who consider themselves "elite" in order to pull this off (referring to the "
invite only" WEF here). They were able to gain credibility and influence by linking themselves with other well-known members of that organization publicly to gain the trust of the "hoi palloi", steal their money and use it to buy themselves even more influence
and a private jet so they could do "good" at a frenetic pace.
Spoiler alert: The final paragraph of the article below and they don't even say he's a sociopathic fraudster (on meth)... it's as if they're making excuses for his behaviour and the author implies that Sam will be back.
Bankman-Fried once said that hed got into cryptocurrency only to make money as quickly as possible and help finance the main goals of the effective-altruism movement. He was a proponent of the longtermist ethos, in which prediction and speculation are often indistinguishable and obligations to a probabilistic future outweigh those to the material present. Effective altruism is ultimately a gamble. Bankman-Fried placed his bet. For now, he has lost. archived full version:
https://archive.ph/8gTiJ