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this is a good joke but this also speaks to a truth about 2025 America: the growing, horrible sense among many people that running scams is the only path to basic financial stability this is, of course, utter poison for human society

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I’m also not saying that it is at all ACCURATE that people must run scams to enjoy financial stability - the problem is that a lot of people increasingly have come to believe this is so, for not totally un-understandable reasons

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Why be legitimate when you can create a financial bubble using fraud that not only you don't go to jail for but you get richer while the taxpayers get poorer? Thanks Obama administration for destroying our faith in justice.

This is why it’s hard to explain the concept of “zero-sum” to a population that increasingly has little or no lived experience of the alternative.

They made so much easy money already that they feel entitled to lots more, even easier money, not this decade, not this year, but today, with absolutely no work. Sliding the buy sell button on the app is proof of their brilliance. And if it fails, others are to blame and must compensate.