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This is absolutely brilliant if you want to teach kids lessons about raising money. What better way to teach the barnum lesson about suckers than to take advan
by niggler 14y ago
This is absolutely brilliant if you want to teach kids lessons about raising money. What better way to teach the barnum lesson about suckers than to take advantage of them? I can fully imagine the mother thinking that this is a lesson she wanted to teach her daughter.
- adventured 14y agoCorrection, if you want to teach your children how to be sleezeballs and raise money the huckster way. There are more than a few ways to make money, raise money, and live life that don't involve being a scumbag.
- Goladus 14y agoLesson or not, it is still a scam.
- lutze 14y agoExcept Barnum never said that, and was actually a pretty fucking stand up guy when you look into it.
- jaggederest 14y agoYou mean an apocryphal quote about the ease of fooling people is itself false? Say it ain't so! I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
- lutze 14y agoThe quote isn't false per se, just wrongly attributed. That does create a sort of tragic irony I suppose, because like I said, Barnum was a pretty great guy all told (philanthropist, abolitionist...)