A lot of people are suggesting that it was immoral of Burry to profit from his insight instead of warning people of the impending calamity, yet what message speaks more forcefully? Saying you think the market is going to implode, vs. paying millions of dollars to insure specifically against that happening?
No one would have listened to his warning, and indeed his investors didn't like hearing it. Burry is not the bad guy in this epic catastrophe.
Instead of profiting off people suffering from bad investments in housing, Burry should have stuck with his career in neurology and profited off people suffering from brain cancer.
In the article he described in several ways how he had no real interest in medicine, just drifting into it because it seemed easy to study, and was physically repelled by the sight of people being operated on. This is not the kind of person you want operating on you.
No one would have listened to his warning, and indeed his investors didn't like hearing it. Burry is not the bad guy in this epic catastrophe.