So this guy just takes the time and money (I guess that part doesn’t hurt if you’ve got 15 billion) to write a book and produce an excellent video version for a broader audience, just for … what exactly?

According to his Wikipedia his employees are forced to agree to continuous recordings, the NYT claims he does some sort of (i assume perfectly legal) insider trading and just acts like he’s got the perfect system in place, he defended the CCPs actions on multiple accessions and just in general does not seem like the type of guy to provide anything of value for free.

So can someone educate me on the angle? What’s the goal here?

And why would anyone read this and not get the feeling of being scammed. There is no way this guy is in it for the book sales.

Honestly I’m sometimes questioning my sanity while reading the comments of videos like this. There are people acting like he’s a modern Prometheus, sharing the knowledge of financial whatever. I would really be amazed if my cynicism turns out to be wrong on this one.

I work with a fellow that raves about this guy and his "historical views on empires".

I'm not convinced, history is written by the surviving victors and revised by those with a narrative.

I'm a firm believer that the market is not logical predictable or rational, but it is game-able.

> So can someone educate me on the angle? What’s the goal here?

Gain influence, increase his marketing & exposure, creating new opportunities for himself. Good chance he also believes what he is preaching. All these things can be true at the same time.

He gives away a lot of the info in the book for free, so you can consider the book as just a method of marketing his ideas.