Opinion: Billionaires like Elon Musk, Sam Bankman-Fried didn’t save the world. They wrecked it. Let’s take it back

The world's currently richest people – for all their differences in style or subject matter – seem to share a strikingly similar philosophy. — AFP

After growing up amid upper-middle-class affluence in Silicon Valley as the children of two Stanford Law School professors, as a super-smart kid who got into MIT to study physics, Sam Bankman-Fried decided in those teen years that he wanted to save the world in the worst way.

Which is exactly what he did.