I think he knew. I think there is a world in which Sam told himself when he started to do the wrong thing, when Alameda and FTX started to make decisions that were wrong. Some part of his mind justified it to himself because he could foresee a future in which they got through this hump. And at the end of the day, they built up such a giant war chest and did so much good for the world that this moment of harm or sort of risk that they had imposed on their customers was worth doing morally because the later good they would do was worth so much. That's the way he thinks. Like you know, but this kind of worldview allowed him to justify these

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