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> It's easy to say it's idiots who fall for this stuff It’s not just “easy”, it’s an ideological imperative to ensure that the vulnerable have “personal respon
by rectang 1y ago
> It's easy to say it's idiots who fall for this stuff
It’s not just “easy”, it’s an ideological imperative to ensure that the vulnerable have “personal responsibility” to avoid predation, while predators bear no responsibility for their own actions. Many tech business models depend on exploitation — it’s not just phone scammers.
- pessimizer 1y agoIt's always convenient to decide that the weak deserve to be exploited because they were too lazy or stupid to be strong. Then we can do the thing that makes the least sense, which is to design society to protect the strong. Or rather, to justify what the strong were already doing and didn't have to ask anybody's permission to do, and that nobody else ever had a say about that mattered.