Nobody Who Went To Yale Could Be Bad

I am rather hung up on the degree to which elites do not think other elites can be bad, or at least believe that, well, sure, elites are bad, but imagine what garbage people everyone who doesn't have a Harvard degree must be!

Yglesias:

  Dylan Matthews:

SBF was an inexperienced 25-year-old hedge fund founder who wound up, unsurprisingly, hurting millions of people due to his profound failures of judgment when that hedge fund grew into something enormous — failures that can be laid in part at the feet of EA.

A failure in judgment is when I buy the cheap brand of toilet paper! HE'S A FUCKING CROOK!!!

New FTX head John Ray III is asked to compare FTX to Enron. “[Enron crimes] were highly orchestrated financial machinations by highly sophisticated people to keep transactions off balance sheets. This (FTX)... isn't sophisticated whatsoever, this is just plain old embezzlement."

— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) December 13, 2022

That fucking newspaper:

No it’s not.—————
“It’s like a Greek tragedy,” said John Donohue, a colleague who has attended Sunday dinners at the Bankman-Fried home. “The story of flying too close to the sun, and having your wings singed.”https://t.co/xzobPPMsLB

— Emanuel Derman (@EmanuelDerman) December 13, 2022