Maybe I’ve lived too conservatively but I wonder about privileged guys like SBF who manage to blow up their lives by age 30 like this. Not limited to crypto. There’s Shkreli, Snowden. A few women too. Elizabeth Holmes etc. At least people growing up poor in bad environments have excuses.

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I was talking to a friend about this yesterday. Our theory is that society somehow produces some risk-neutral/loving individual that hits a jackpot, but they don’t know when to stop. And it all comes crashing when they finally roll a 1