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Frauds are definitely less common because of regulation/oversight and social media. Read up on all the corner-cutting of 1800s and earlier business, you could s
by armchairhacker 4y ago
Frauds are definitely less common because of regulation/oversight and social media. Read up on all the corner-cutting of 1800s and earlier business, you could scam someone and run away and those affected just wouldn't be able to find you.
- z3c0 4y agoTo add, it's worth noting that "snake oil salesman" was a very real thing in the 19th century[1]. It is pretty hyberbolic to assert that there's more figurative snake oil salesmen when there were once literal ones. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil