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Sometimes people don’t steal because they need to, but because they want to. It’s a puzzle, it’s a rush, it’s fun, and for some it’s their hobby.

Very comfortable might be nice.... but it sounds like this person got away without having to work and pulling in 400k and 800k in what were possibly laundered money.

That seems like what might be a more attractive thing to do / better pay off, without a lot of work.

One could say similar things about Stanford, and yet Theranos was created by a Stanford dropout.

Maybe he cheated to get in?

> Graduating

Yeah, that.

Opportunity, Rationalization and Motivation, but never explicitly Profit.