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How Sam Bankman-Fried Conned the Crypto World

Behind the Bastards

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In a recent series of text messages with a Vox journalist, Sam Bankman admitted that everything he'd had to say about effective altruism was a con. "It's hard to justify being risk averse on your own personal impact," the billionaire told Jamie Aspf in an interview. The only reason his effective altruism thing exists as a funded thing is as a fucking shibileth for billionaires who don't want to pay taxes and want to let the world crumble around them while sucking as much value out of the working class as they can.

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