I do. It's important to know how the the world works.
> We care about how this fraudster came to sit at home playing video games and chatting up witnesses all day, while many many others sit in jail as their cases drawl out, and many indeed die there.
I care about this, too. But to address this, it's also important to know what the law is, and why.
To be fair, blue collar defendants also get much better (financial) terms in the federal system (and often no cash component) than in state systems. The main distinction at work that makes SBF’s case not what people have been trained on by media and common experience is not of wealth/class but of federal vs. state system, when most experience with bail is state not federal and most media portrayals are of (often distorted pictures of the) state systems.
Most people don't know much about white collar crime because it just doesn't come up that often. When a case does become big news, it's worth analyzing it as a case study for how white collar crime is handled in general. The specifics about how he made bail may not be interesting to you, but they obviously are to many other people who don't usually follow this stuff.
As an analogy, look at police brutality or sexual harassment. There are thousands of documented instances that all look pretty similar, but occasionally one story, for one reason or another, will explode and shine light on a messed up situation that many people are ignorant of, or misinformed on.
When blue collar defendants go to bail bondsmen, they often specifically demand collateral from other people, to make it more likely the defendant appears.
He does it because of the formal requirements and motivations behind bail, and particularly how those differ between the federal system and the bulk of the state systems.
So, you can not want to talk about the details of formal requirements and motivations, but then you don’t really care about how he got where he is when other accused criminals are treated differently. You just want to vent about the difference without understanding.
The latter is uninteresting; the former interests the public who is concerned by inequality in our legal system.
No amount of screaming “but the pretense type checks!” will be a useful or interesting answer to this discussion about social class.
The motivations behind bail are the power dynamics.
And the difference between the motivations–the power dynamics–in the federal and most state systems are central to the issue here, and are directly reflected in the different formal requirements.
Waving those off is choosing ignorance.