If people pay to see Shah, he is important enough to warrant such a fee. The fee was to introduce themselves to this great wielder of loans... so no tickee, no washee. If one knows the rules, one gets to play... AKA PAY TO PLAY.
Shah feigns humility, when he says he is not that important. What he meant was he didn't think he would get caught... and by the time $400B had gone under the bridge, there is a certain type of confidence, and success, in that belief of anonymity. Repeat after me: "I'm not that important, so it's fine to take the money". That mantra worked all this time.
If people pay to see Shah, he is important enough to warrant such a fee. The fee was to introduce themselves to this great wielder of loans... so no tickee, no washee. If one knows the rules, one gets to play... AKA PAY TO PLAY.
Shah feigns humility, when he says he is not that important. What he meant was he didn't think he would get caught... and by the time $400B had gone under the bridge, there is a certain type of confidence, and success, in that belief of anonymity. Repeat after me: "I'm not that important, so it's fine to take the money". That mantra worked all this time.