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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•5 days ago It’s a whole hell of a lot harder to rig when your name is everywhere when you win. This also sounds like a uniquely US problem. Not that there aren’t scammers everywhere, but it feels like it would be more prevalent in the US.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-9•4 days ago… That’s an absolute wild and hella nationalistic take. There’s nothing even slightly uniquely Americans about embezzlement and theft-- Europe has been doing that for thousands of years before America even existed
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•4 days agoI did acknowledge that it’s not exclusive to the US. And I didn’t say “it is”, I said “it feels like”. FTX, Theranos, Fyre Festival, Enron, Bernie Madoff, Logan Paul’s CrytoZoo, Charles Ponzi (the OG Ponzi scammer), etc. While scams exist everywhere, the US seems specially suited to embolden people to run scams. At least high profile ones.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•4 days agoThe charismatic snake oil salesman is an American icon.
minus-squaressillyssadasslinkfedilinkEnglish6•4 days agoI mean, the entire US government is currently being used for scamming.
This also sounds like a uniquely US problem. Not that there aren’t scammers everywhere, but it feels like it would be more prevalent in the US.
… That’s an absolute wild and hella nationalistic take. There’s nothing even slightly uniquely Americans about embezzlement and theft-- Europe has been doing that for thousands of years before America even existed
I did acknowledge that it’s not exclusive to the US. And I didn’t say “it is”, I said “it feels like”.
FTX, Theranos, Fyre Festival, Enron, Bernie Madoff, Logan Paul’s CrytoZoo, Charles Ponzi (the OG Ponzi scammer), etc.
While scams exist everywhere, the US seems specially suited to embolden people to run scams. At least high profile ones.
The charismatic snake oil salesman is an American icon.
I mean, the entire US government is currently being used for scamming.