[drewcoo]

> so many people ostensibly so highly qualified

> Is this a gold rush thing at the last desperate end of how to get noticed cashing in on hype?

https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/01/12/the-confidence-gam...

That article has a wonderful quote from Mark Twain. In part, this:

"The con is the oldest game there is. But it’s also one that is remarkably well suited to the modern age. If anything, the whirlwind advance of technology heralds a new golden age of the grift. Cons thrive in times of transition and fast change, when new things are happening and old ways of looking at the world no longer suffice."