Contra Bankman-Fried on Shakespeare
Samuel Bankman-Fried. Trader. Entrepreneur. Alleged criminal. Art critic.
Hang on — what?
Yes, for some time the head of the doomed crypto-currency exchange FTX — which collapsed in 2022 amid corruption charges — fancied himself a humanist. A 2012 blogpost titled “The Fetishisation of the Old” addresses literature.
Now, to be fair “SBF” was only 20 when he…