[mmiliauskas]

How these people self-defend themselves internally? Usually the answer is simple, along the lines of "oh, just sociopaths"... I mean you have to go to conferences, tweet, interact with people, get articles written about you, basically become famous, even build tech or at least organize that, they often have families, and basically ALL burn at the end, like lose everything.

[maxflow2]

Particularly in finance, I think a lot of these people convince themselves of an overly cynical view of the world: "They all do this - I'm just playing the game like everybody else."

When risk is involved, there's also often some hubris in the assessment. These crypto orgs obviously never intended to go broke. They probably honestly thought they'd likely have so much money that they'd cover their customer commitments without any issue. And if they did, they frankly probably wouldn't have ended up exposed and in legal trouble.

Which comes back to the first point: people cynically thinking all the orgs who made it big also did all this shady stuff but got away with it.

[itsoktocry]

>Particularly in finance

Politicians are way worse. They're supposed to be acting in the best interests of the population. Meanwhile, they're eg accepting duffel bags of money to look away from human rights abuses[0] and...a million other things. At least those in the finance world admit they're about the money.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63952993

[Q6T46nT668w6i3m]

I don’t understand your point. Eva Kaili is in custody.

[wmf]

It's the Fed's fault. Everything would have been fine if ZIRP kept going forever.