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Zach Weinersmith:
He started as a young man, full of hope, like me. He wanted to be an architect. But then he saw that he could use his math skills to make more money in finance. Slowly but surely he became more acquisitive. He based more of his self image on wealth. The longer he stayed away from his passion, the more money he required to justify his nihilistic behaviour.
One day, like the last little red ember on a charred log in a long-abandoned home, his dream snuffed out. He filled the dream-cavity with power. Power over others. He ruined households, marriages, families, lives, all with the change of a number on a spreadsheet.
He doesn’t do it from desire to hurt. He can no longer imagine what hurt is, because he feels nothing. He destroys like a ghost, seeking no vengeance, but endlessly repeating the pattern that killed him long ago.