[mikhael28]

It’s insane behavior like this that is why we didn’t discover electricity for five thousand years of civilization. Scammers ruthlessly exploiting people, and people uncritically accepting the exploitation. Then, one day, the truth is revealed, but it’s too late.

[yawpitch]

Ok, I’ll bite: which scammers ruthlessly exploiting uncritically accepting people kept us from discovering electricity for 5 millennia?

[n4r9]

Not OP. I interpreted his point not to literally refer to scammers. It refers to people who would rather invest their smarts and energy into stealing from others rather than exploring new frontiers and sharing their knowledge.

[plsbenice34]

But discovering electricity has merely made those problems expand to a greater scale and depth

[wiseowise]

You mean there was no electricity for 5k years, because all the Benjamin Franklins of their time were simping for prostitutes?