Tech executive Bob Lee led an underground life
wsj.com
wsj.com
Where did you read that??
He had an affair with a married woman and spent his free time attending sex- and drug-fueled parties instead of at home with his two kids and wife. Yeah, he didn't deserve to die, but saying "he didn't hurt anyone" and was "senselessly" (as in, for absolutely no reason) murdered is a ridiculous take. Go read the comments on the Post article I linked to, and see what normal people (as in, not in the SV/VC ecochamber) think about all of this. Spoiler: largely unsympathetic to what they perceive as a rich, hedonistic "techbro" who met an untimely end.
While the unwashed masses might be unsympathetic, the lifestyle enumerated isn’t that far off from your middle to upper class debauchery and coping mechanisms (affairs, recreational drug use, etc). Someone’s husband had their feelings hurt by their partner’s behavior and the death was still senseless.
There isn’t one.
> if not to live a life where the judgement of others can’t touch you?
Material resources only get you that if you are willing to distance yourself entirely from human intercourse, in which case money – whose only purpose is exchange – is not the right form of wealth.
But it turns out that this wasn't the story at all. The guy led a rather dramatic life, and his murder wasn't random at all.
It's unfortunate that this leads to news outlets going out of their way to be salacious. It's not really much of an "apology" for the news outlets to try to correct their previous interpretation of the story. But it's also true that, sadly, many people will keep repeating a version of the story that affirms their preconceptions, and it's not entirely wrong to keep contradicting that.
>Known in wealthy circles as “The Lifestyle,” Lee, 43,a father of two, allegedly enjoyed the city’s underground party scene, as did Khazar Momeni, wife of a prominent plastic surgeon and sister of Nima Momeni.
>People familiar with the group said Lee and Khazar, 37, were sleeping together, and many feared he’d fallen into a dangerous lifestyle, surrounding himself with the wrong group of people.
>Lee was allegedly confronted by Nima about the hard-partying and his sister’s involvement in an argument erupting in the early hours of April 4 when Lee was stabbed multiple times, prosecutors said.
"The Lifestyle" refers to the scene to which he belonged, not the man himself, btw (at least according to another article).
Edit: I scoured the corners of the tubes to produce this for you~
Edit 2: @asah, 100% agree, it was a letdown. Yet I always wanna turn over the stone.. >..<
Still a trash article.