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by rdtwo 1634 days ago
Yes it’s a scam but so is most of tech. A lot of billion dollar companies with business models that don’t work.

Some scams will be profitable and some may even emerge to be viable product but it’s scammy.

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There is a continuous spectrum between being the guy Steve Carrell's character Mark Baum meets with in The Big Short at the restaurant smirking about how he knows he's immoral but earns a bigger paycheque than Baum, and being a hard-working rule-abiding capitalist. Most tech companies are somewhere in the middle. I'm pretty sure if you work somewhere, you can tell where on the spectrum you fit. If you do know, and it's on the bad end, and you keep working there, the fact that there exists a spectrum really has no bearing on the morality of your choices.