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I agree that it's unclear why Youtube just changes the rules, disregaring their actual audience magnets and causal effects. As for "blame Youtube for encouragi

I agree that it's unclear why Youtube just changes the rules, disregaring their actual audience magnets and causal effects. As for "blame Youtube for encouraging", well, yes, sure you can blame Youtube for encouraging other people. Ponzi schemeres also "encourage" you to invenst. Snake oil vendor also "encourage" you to buy this insanely expensive wonder tincture which is supposed to heal just about everything there is. Ironically, in the US, the tactics of the so-called confidence men are not illegal. In free trade a sales pitch is everything. If anyone can convince you to fall for a scheme then it's your own damn fault. If you know that, you avoid that. What do you think how many Ponzi schemers were murdered and quartered just because somebody fell for their shady ways of "encouraging" the money out of naive people's pockets? I'm sorry, but let's face reality here. If you fall for that kind of "encouragement" you probably should review your own naive world view. The reality is hostile. If there is a way to take advantage of you it will be taken if your aren't careful.

pluma 9y ago
I'm fairly sure that Ponzi schemes are, unlike YouTube, illegal in most countries though. > If you fall for that kind of "encouragement" you probably should review your own naive world view. I guess that's what makes you a anarcho-capitalist and me a socialist. I'm not sure where you're from, but I'm German. The general attitude in the US for example seems to be that "your problem is your problem". Like many other European countries, in Germany the view tends to be closer to "your problem is everyone's problem" (though I think some of the Nordic countries take this to a greater extreme than us). This is why we have a real social welfare system, real public health care, real workers rights and real consumer protection laws. You're still not excused from being a naive idiot, but it's not only considered unethical to exploit naive idiots, it's also almost always a crime. Not because we want to encourage people to be naive idiots but because we think it's society's moral duty to protect even the naive idiots (and because everyone eventually has their moment of being a naive idiot about something).

pluma 9y ago

I'm fairly sure that Ponzi schemes are, unlike YouTube, illegal in most countries though. > If you fall for that kind of "encouragement" you probably should review your own naive world view. I guess that's what makes you a anarcho-capitalist and me a socialist. I'm not sure where you're from, but I'm German. The general attitude in the US for example seems to be that "your problem is your problem". Like many other European countries, in Germany the view tends to be closer to "your problem is everyone's problem" (though I think some of the Nordic countries take this to a greater extreme than us). This is why we have a real social welfare system, real public health care, real workers rights and real consumer protection laws. You're still not excused from being a naive idiot, but it's not only considered unethical to exploit naive idiots, it's also almost always a crime. Not because we want to encourage people to be naive idiots but because we think it's society's moral duty to protect even the naive idiots (and because everyone eventually has their moment of being a naive idiot about something).