To be fair, predatory schemes can take many forms. Bad financial products, pseudo-science products, even a lot of advertising strategies these days use predator

To be fair, predatory schemes can take many forms. Bad financial products, pseudo-science products, even a lot of advertising strategies these days use predatory tactics. At the heart of it is the fact that these needs that you talk about people filling can be needs people think they have, but don't actually have. "My chakra is out of balance and it's the cause of what is bad in my life. I must buy this raw water."