What do Sam Bankman-Fried, Kanye West and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have in common? They are all sons of professors. In fact, we are an epidemic. (My father taught anthropology for 50 years and has just written a new book.) Our lot now runs much of the world, from politics to tech. How did that happen? And how worried should the rest of you be?
Our cohort includes Emmanuel Macron, Benjamin Netanyahu, Justin Trudeau, Pete Buttigieg, South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol, the Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Bankman-Fried’s arch-rival Changpeng Zhao, who created the crypto exchange Binance.
