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by pjc50 991 days ago
> people on average were way more gullible the further you look back in time

Only because they kept running into the protagonist, Odysseus Polymetis.

(seriously, there's a long history of tricksters; people are on average the same level of gullibility but inventing a new trick format or new fraud is a technological level up in the same way as a rifle against a phalanx is. See cryptocurrency)