If you want to understand Sam Bankman-Fried and what he symbolizes about our culture, you could do worse than to understand the cultural environment in which he grew up.
The son of two Stanford academics who ooze a sense of privilege and moral superiority, and looking through the lens of his upbringing it’s suddenly easy to understand how he became a moral monster.
There’s something deeply unsettling about SBF’s parents. Frightening, even.
You get the feeling that, as cliched as it might be, these are people who hold themselves as members of a higher caste, to whom the rules and mores governing the proletariat simply do not apply. People… pic.twitter.com/sao1C1y1ro
— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) March 28, 2024
SBF’s parents submitted letters to the court in support of their son, trying to persuade the judge that he should get a light sentence. Rather than portraying a…
