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The thing that amazes me about these people/companies - why do they think they can escape the reach of U.S government? It is the most powerful and vicious entity there is, if they want to get you, they will. What makes these people think that they are smarter or luckier than their fellow law breakers that came before them.

Unlike SBF (who seems dumber than a rock), CZ doesn’t seem that dumb. I don’t understand this at all

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There were lots of examples of "better to ask for forgiveness as a rich person than permission as a poor person", that they saw. Tech companies entered finance, taxi-driving, health-advice-dispensing, etc. and didn't fall into line with existing laws and regulations for years, until after they got rich.

They were, no question, incorrect, but if you're wanting to believe it could work (because you really wanted to get rich), you could convince yourself of it.

Well, it did kinda work. At least for a while. CZ, SBF, etc gained fabulous wealth and would have gotten away with if not for those darned kids! The reality is lots of people are willing to take extreme risk for extreme reward. Sometimes those risks involve the potential of serious jail time.

You, like everyone else, have never read about the smartest/luckiest criminals in the world because they don’t get caught.

Ok, fair enough. But the question still remains - what are the odds of not getting caught? Just because a handful of people win the lottery every year doesn’t mean you and I will, correct? In the case of lottery, all I am gonna lose is a few dollars that I paid for the ticket, but doing illegal activities can cost me my freedom and life.

And they don’t get caught because they don’t take too much. So less interesting

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