Bob Greene: Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography is the source of all do-well-to-do-good stories. He says story became template for hagiographies of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Milton S. Hershey. Fried was a freshly minted paragon of greed in the service of good. Sam Bankman-Fried, SBF’s fortune has gone poof and he’s living in a Bahamian jail cell. He fell down the well-worn staircase from brilliant to colorful to embattled to disgraced. The problem boils down to two facts, both having to do with the tech revolution.
