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Whenever I read another story about Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder and former chief executive of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, I cannot help but think of a poignantly unnerving piece of short fiction by Willa Cather titled, "Paul's Case."

In it, a young man embarks on a journey to escape the trivialities of life in pursuit of the exotic and extravagant. But they are experiences he cannot sustain and they eventually prove to be his undoing.

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Source Fool.com