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"Just another example of the plague that is social media" I'm not an advocate for Social Media. But i do not see Fyre Festival as a product of Social Media. So
by coenhyde 8y ago
"Just another example of the plague that is social media"
I'm not an advocate for Social Media. But i do not see Fyre Festival as a product of Social Media. Social Media was a tool that Fyre Frestival used very effectively. But if Instagram or whatever didn't exist i guarantee you Billy would have been running some other high risk fraudulent venture. It's who he is. Instead of social media as the tool, it may have been tv or radio. Heck, what about all the railway scams that existed back when we had only newspapers. Conmen will always find a way.
- mr_toad 8y ago> Conmen will always find a way. During the south sea bubble vendors sold shares in the streets. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company#/media/File%3ABubble.folly.jpg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company#/media/Fil...
- a_bonobo 8y agoNPR had a very interesting article on scammers in the 1800s: https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/02/12/385310877/how-scams-worked-in-the-1800s https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/02/12/385... The first guy would be a perfect fit for GoFundMe.
- sumo89 8y agoAgreed. However I see Billy as a product of the startup culture embracing failure. You have an idea for a company, convince someone else to finance it, the company fails and that person looses all their money. If that company succeeds then you're hailed as the next Steve Jobs despite the very real possibility you're a conman at heart like Billy. FuckJerry deserves all the backlash they get and probably more but we can't let them overshadow the type of culture that has allowed someone like Billy to be doing this for so long.