"Now that sounds crazy, but I do think that if he had the internet, he could survive jail forever," author Michael Lewis said of Sam Bankman-Fried.

Sam Bankman-Fried would readily choose a Brooklyn jail cell with internet access over a $39 million Bahamas penthouse that doesn’t have Wi-Fi, author of FTX book says::“Now that sounds crazy, but I do think that if he had the internet, he could survive jail forever,” author Michael Lewis said of Sam Bankman-Fried.

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    It’s seems he’s been living two lives. In one he’s Sam Bankman Fried, a disgraced tech prodigy who’s going to spend a lot of time in jail. The other life is lived in computers where he goes by the hacker alias SBF and is guilty of every financial crime we have a law for. One of these lives has no future and the other….

    Wait, they’re the same life.

  • Critical_Insight@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Well, I’m the first to admit that having to live years without internet, though probably good for my mental health, would still be quite undesireable and I’d be willing to trade a lot for that luxury.