Chamath: The big enabler here is not crypto per se. It's all these institutional biases and elite biases that he was able to play into. He monetized his parents life work. If you don't kiss the ring and bow down to them, they will try to destroy you or run you out of town. And so these types of grifts will continue as Friedberg said, because there is no check and balance without a healthy independent media.

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