[api]

There are people who make a nice living just pumping fake companies over and over in the penny stock market or to D-list VCs. These are the white collar equivalent of what cops call “greasy crimes,” crimes not quite serious enough to get real attention. (The dumb street crime epidemic in California is a result of further dialing back enforcement of “greasy crimes.”)

I’m sure those types are all over this NFT craze.

“I see that there are dumb people with money. I have a solution to that…”

I feel like a total sucker sometimes for attempting to do useful work when if I’d put the same effort into cheating people I’d be rich now several times over. This is truly a new golden age of the con artist. I mean we just had one for president.

I bet con artistry flourishes during any time of rapid change, confusion, and upheaval. Nobody knows what is happening so it’s easy to sell empty boxes with charisma.

[bratwurst3000]

Thats true it is an amazing time for con artist and i had never think about it as a consequenz of rapid change

[pessimizer]

I think its more that con artistry flourishes when interest rates are in the toilet.