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The purpose of sneering about "idiots" and inventing pseudoscientific gibberish about natural selection is to wash one's hands of moral responsibility for scamm
by aithrowawaycomm 2y ago
The purpose of sneering about "idiots" and inventing pseudoscientific gibberish about natural selection is to wash one's hands of moral responsibility for scamming naive young people, the elderly, or adults with psychiatric or cognitive disabilities. "It wasn't me robbing your college-age son out of a new car, that was just natural selection doing its thing! So long, losers!"
My mom was a very crappy person who strongly believed in the "sucker born every minute, separate a fool from his money" mantra. I think it's become a core American ideology.
- sneak 2y agoI would prefer clever people have resources instead of any of those groups you listed. I have this preference even if I am not the one being clever (so, via the veil of ignorance).
- tracerbulletx 2y agoI would prefer kind, honorable, useful, people have them.
- s5300 2y ago[dead]
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agoI've adopted the sucker born ever minute attitude since it's all I can do. These fools have the tenacity to be scammed at a rate faster than we can ever hope to do anything about and it's depressing otherwise. Society ends up bearing the cost.
- saagarjha 2y agoI mean you can also not scam these people
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- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agoI don't.
- s5300 2y ago[dead]
- Barrin92 2y agoThere's a difference between a grandma losing money to a phone scam and this kind of "hustle economy" gambling. I've talked to a lot of people who participate in this stuff, they always know the odds exactly. They're fully aware. It's a combination of greed, thrill and attention seeking that doesn't deserve sympathy. Everybody who participates in hawk tuah coin crypto rug pulls knows how stupid it is, they just think they're the smart ones fleecing everybody else. Those people deserve the "sucker born every minute" treatment. That is their worldview, they just think they're the exception.
- thefounder 2y agoAddiction takes over rationale. Everyone knows crack cocaine is bad. They know “the odds” too, yet they can’t stop.