X User Likens FTX to EA/Rat Orgs' 'Hiring Your Friends' Problem
EigenGender · x · 2026-09-30
EigenGender argues the FTX collapse and "slutcon" share the same root problem: hiring your friends. In the quoted post, he writes that the real, non-optics issues in rat/EA orgs are rampant conflicts of interest and friend-hiring, best addressed by everyone's processes moving up a few rungs on the professionalism scale.
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