[eric4smith]

Hustle bros were there since the beginning of time.

Think about that.

Every new thing for thousands of years someone always jumped on it for short term $$$ gain.

The hustle bros have a firm place in the ecosystem and the internet has just put a magnifying glass on the movement and made the hustle faster and easier.

Don’t hate the player (or the game), for they are as old as time.

[groby_b]

"for they are as old as time" really isn't a justification for not disliking the player or the game. Shit is also around since the beginning of time, and we still generally avoid rolling in it.

[bawolff]

Its the naturalistic fallacy.

Murder has also been around since the beginning of time...

[irjustin]

I can hate it but yes they are as old as time.

[inawarminister]

The earliest we know of: 1750BCE Ur.

>Nanni created the cuneiform letter for delivery to Ea-nasir. Inscribed on it is a complaint to Ea-nasir about a copper delivery of the incorrect grade, and issues with another delivery;[9] Nanni also complained that his servant (who handled the transaction) had been treated rudely. He stated that, at the time of writing, he had not accepted the copper, but had paid the money for it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

[vineyardmike]

You can hate the player and the game. It’s not old as time. Capitalism and our current economic model as we know it isn’t as old as time.

Yes there were always hustlers and con artists, but they’re not exactly well revered. Jumping into a space and f*king it up for short term game doesn’t deserve respect?

[bobbygoodlatte]

Con artists before the modern era were reigned in by their local communities. A grifter would gain a bad local reputation and find themselves unable to continue running their scheme as they'd run out of rubes to dupe. They'd have to leave to the next town if they wanted to keep grifting. But now with social media, grifters can instantly find a new audience of rubes who are unaware of their past exploits

[bawolff]

I think it was easier to be a grifter back in ancient times. Low communication among victims. No photographs to identify you , no permanant records (or at least not like the internet)

[vineyardmike]

Bigger distrust of outsiders, of course

[monero-xmr]

Capitalism is as old as time. People save resources, build wealth, and reinvest it. Happened in ancient Assyria, Greece, Rome, Persia, forever. Trade is an emergent phenomena.

The hyper restricted model of capitalism we have, where every last damn thing is regulated and taxed, is the innovation that began in Amsterdam and has continued for 400 years. But the concept of markets, trade, investment, and building wealth is as old as humanity.

[YZF]

Humanity is much older than these cities.

[lizzardbraind]

>There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.

>The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What’s up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don’t think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who’s been pinching my beer?

>And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass), or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman’s eye.

- Terry Pratchett, The Truth

[cableshaft]

Christopher Columbus was a hustle bro of his time.

[api]

Dysentery is as old as time too.