It isn't that folks normalize fraud, but rather that fraud has been a thread in humanity for, well, a very very long time indeed, probably before we wrote this

It isn't that folks normalize fraud, but rather that fraud has been a thread in humanity for, well, a very very long time indeed, probably before we wrote this stuff down. In other words, it is normal for societies to have some fraud - though, it isn't a "normal" behavior since most folks aren't out defrauding folks on a large scale. People act like fraud is a modern thing, and it isn't - and definitely isn't a sign that we are just doing worse now than in some romanticized past. If we don't acknowledge that it is a thing humans do and have done for a long time, our solutions will never be adequate (if that is possible). We really should be learning from the past and applying some of those lessons to the modern ways folks do fraud. Charisma has been intertwined with fraud for eons as well. If something is fairly common among fraudsters, then it benefits us to point this out.