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That’s easily games as well, though. Bernie Madoff was able to screw over a lot of people based largely on his reputation. While bad, at least that was “just” money and not something safety critical.


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Bernie Madoff?

Believe it or not, you can be financially successful and still be a bad person. Bernie Madoff wasn't the most moral person.

Bernie Madoff harmed non-consenting individuals.

Bernie Madoff's mistake is that he screwed over other rich people.

Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried both made the mistake of messing with the money of other rich people.

The more I think about it, the more parallels with Bernie Madoff!

Bernie Madoff was also a philanthropist.

Bernie Madoff wiped a bunch of people out.

Bernie Madoff seemed legit, too.

Bernie Madoff ran a ponzi scheme for 30 years and had the entire financial industry and regulators like the SEC fooled the entire time.

Bernie Madoff was also able to totally autist-genius his way out of trouble too.

Bernie Madoff was able to do that for decades, too. Until he couldn’t.

Madoff is the obvious example

Bernard Madoff.

For those who don't know Bernie Madoff was an American financier who executed the largest Ponzi scheme in history, defrauding thousands of investors out of tens of billions of dollars over the course of at least 17 years, and possibly longer. He was also a pioneer in electronic trading and chairman of the Nasdaq in the early 1990s.

Madoff had skin in the game it didn’t help

Bernie Madoff's dead, though.

Bernie Madoff did die in prison, so there’s that.

Greed or hubris? Bernie Madoff had a legitimate successful business before he started his Ponzi scheme.
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