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Few people are asking why such a large proportion of the public are easily scammed, a status which is different to prior eras. The answer isn't education, fyi.
by neovialogistics 3y ago
Few people are asking why such a large proportion of the public are easily scammed, a status which is different to prior eras. The answer isn't education, fyi.
- 15457345234 3y agoWhat is the answer, then?
- shmde 3y ago42
- bendbro 3y ago[flagged]
- jkoudys 3y agoYeah no.
- bendbro 3y agoNo yes.
- DonHopkins 3y agoAfter looking at your comment history and seeing your track record of being totally and consistently wrong, I'd say: definitely yeah no. And you replying "No yes" just makes it yeaher and noer. It's you, not "most people".
- bendbro 3y agoYour perspective is the product of a rebellious worldview two decades out of date. Your enemies are long dead and your ideas long purposeless. We've contorted ourselves legislating freedom to people who squander it. No group or force limits the common man anymore save himself and the state. People have shorter lives, less children, lower IQ, lower income, less friends, less wealth, less homes, and less happiness. Your system is broken and your answer is more of the same.
- DonHopkins 3y agoYou're as demented as Trump.
- dredmorbius 3y agoI'm going to strongly question your presumption that present populations are more scammable than those past.
- popcorncowboy 3y agoThese people weren't scammed, they were defrauded. They were promised one thing and delivered another. The event organisers simply lied so as to inflate the price they could charge for a thing that was worth dramatically less (arguably nothing). The extent of that gap constitutes a form of theft, and the organisers should be charged accordingly. The people who bought tickets weren't gullible or stupid, any more than you would be buying a ticket to a festival with your favourite bands only to rock up and find there are no bands. #fyrefestival
- userbinator 3y agoThe people who bought tickets weren't gullible or stupid Look at the marketing material on their website and ask yourself who wouldn't be suspicious upon seeing multiple nonsensical words: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/764/707/40b https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/764/707/40b
- defrost 3y agoMaybe, but there's precedent: gadjama tuffm i zimzalla binban gligla wowolimai bin beri ban o katalominai rhinozerossola hopsamen laulitalomini hoooo gadjama rhinozerossola hopsamen bluku terullala blaulala loooo ~ Hugo Ball : https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2009/aug/31/hugo-ball-gadji-beri-bimba https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2009/aug/31/hugo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1AmcBM5Ejg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1AmcBM5Ejg
- DonHopkins 3y agoWhat??! I thought that was Oompa Loompa!
- timeon 3y agoThe website had even more red flags than this.
- bojan 3y agoHow is it different from other eras? Take for example all the different prophets who had literally millions of people scammed since the dawn of history.