> Bankman-Fried is a supporter of effective altruism and pursues earning to give as an altruistic career.[16] He is a member of Giving What We Can and has claimed that he plans to donate the great majority of his wealth to effective charities over the course of his life.
Can someone enlighten me? So according to his wikipedia article, he used arbitrage to gain enormous wealth, he took money away from others, and then pledges to donate that money?
He's also vegan, which I think says something about his willingness to make personal sacrifices for a more ethical lifestyle.
At that point it's a deliberate choice to broadcast a certain image. Someone who actually didn't care would dress well and tie their shoes to an important hearing.
He's just the younger, less conservative equivalent of someone like Romney working at Bain Capital while ironing his own shirt and sleeping on a hard mattress etc. This isn't genuinely anti-materialistic, it's so materialistic that mere materialism wasn't enough, you had to add a level of spiritual purity on top of it. Same reasons Brahmin don't eat meat.