Man, this interview really broke my heart. I think I used to look up to Sam a lot, as a billionaire whose self-attested sole priority was doing as much as possible to help the most marginalized + in need, today and in the future.
But damn… “I had to be good [at talking about ethics]… it’s what reputations are made of.”
Just unbelievable.
I hope this is a strange, pathological reaction to the immense stress of the past week for him, and not a genuine unfiltered version of the true views he’s held all along. It all just makes me quite sad, to be honest.
He’s probably desperate and confused now, and both of these affect his messages. I wouldn’t trust that he’s now giving a “true”, unfiltered view into his motives—rather, seeing as he has to be lying somewhere, I assume it’s both then and now.
I doubt he consciously knows his own motives in full. None of us do. But what we say, and how we say it, can still inform others about them. And the cynicism, dishonesty and anti-wokeness all seem genuine to me.
Man, this interview really broke my heart. I think I used to look up to Sam a lot, as a billionaire whose self-attested sole priority was doing as much as possible to help the most marginalized + in need, today and in the future.
But damn… “I had to be good [at talking about ethics]… it’s what reputations are made of.”
Just unbelievable.
I hope this is a strange, pathological reaction to the immense stress of the past week for him, and not a genuine unfiltered version of the true views he’s held all along. It all just makes me quite sad, to be honest.
He’s probably desperate and confused now, and both of these affect his messages. I wouldn’t trust that he’s now giving a “true”, unfiltered view into his motives—rather, seeing as he has to be lying somewhere, I assume it’s both then and now.
I doubt he consciously knows his own motives in full. None of us do. But what we say, and how we say it, can still inform others about them. And the cynicism, dishonesty and anti-wokeness all seem genuine to me.
I think he’s pretending to be malicious to protect the movement