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Part of the problem is that con-men and con-women will take advantage of the surface level adornments and people's propensity to trust people who prop up their ego and run with the idea to con people out of both easy and hard earned money. It's not all that different from alt-medicine quacks who give people false hopes of cures. One offers moral salvation, the other a cure to medical ailments.

You can see the contempt he has for people in this report: https://www.gawker.com/money/sam-bankman-fried-is-so-stupid-...