[leoqa]

One crime is skilled, one crime is not. The skilled person has more options to earn 2BTC than the unskilled person does to earn $200.

If you’re a felon and unskilled you’re as desperate as it gets in America.

[gretch]

Yeah Sam Bankman Fried probably had the skills and connections and trust to coast through life. But instead he chose to commit the most egregious of financial fraud.

I would strongly argue that almost all crime is irrationally - take it to the game theory strategies of tit-for-tat and such.