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I've come to the conclusion affinity fraud is a very wide spectrum. You got guys like Madoff on one end. And people carefully picking out clothes and watching t

I've come to the conclusion affinity fraud is a very wide spectrum. You got guys like Madoff on one end. And people carefully picking out clothes and watching their accent on the other. I think of the latter as low grade affinity fraud. An example a friend. Branches of her family are very wealthy almost old money. She could take something out of her closet and go to a party thrown by old money, fit right in and no one would suspect she's broke.

elcritch 3y ago
For better or worse it’s all part of human social networks. The looks, the lingo, etc all add up to help identify in-group vs out-group. Don’t get me wrong, when I was younger it annoyed me much more. However now I accept that at some level it’s just part of the “human social dance”. Given that large societies, governments, corporations, etc all exist and can function shows that there’s something to it. Who knows, perhaps Neanderthals didn't do these social rituals and that prevented them scaling social networks and eventually dying out.