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GOING INFINITE: Michael Lewis Wants to Change Your Mind About Sam Bankman-Fried

In March, when Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of FTX, was sentenced to 25 years behind bars for stealing $8 billion from customers, many people saw it as just punishment for a two-faced poser who had spouted a lot of rot about altruism just to mask the rank odor of his relentless greed.

Michael Lewis, the famed author of Moneyball and The Big Short, was not one of those people.

Through his eyes, Sam didn’t look like a con man. He looked like an awkward but well-meaning kid who meant what he said about wanting to save the world and was undone not by avarice but by his “pathological…

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