I am not sure which phrase is more funny: "the burden of human exceptionalism" or "never amounting to much in the TH world".
Being an Average Joe, I have never had to worry about the former. Not suffering from low self esteem, I have never had to fear the latter.
Poor Tommy must have failed the "Burden of Human Exceptionalism" test, though.
He could have paid his investors and his crew the money he owed them, at least insofar as was possible.
He could have kept his integrity and let the economic consequences fall where they may.
But he didn't.
He decided HE was more important than them. And so he stole the money.
And now he is a known liar and thief, is in jail without bond, will soon be a convicted felon, after having lived the last 15 years of his life running from the police and the judicial system, living in a virtual prison of his own creation, unable to show his face in public, hiding from the world while shacked-up alongside a fat chick with herpes.