• ReanuKeeves@lemm.eeOP
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      5 months ago

      There are a lot of examples but one you see popular these days are scam coins. I can’t even begin to list how many “influencers” have made off with hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. Not only are they unapologetic about it, they laugh at their fans that donated money to them.

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        Well we do have laws against fraud, deceptive marketing, etc. It’s hard for me to imagine what we would be arresting someone for unless it were one of those already illegal acts.

        It’s nice to say it should be illegal to take advantage of someone, but who decides if that happened, and by what criteria?

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          We have laws against it but they are just words on paper. I’ll give you examples then. Ice poseidon meme coin, rugpulled half a mil and admitted on live stream, nothing happened to him. Logan Paul’s Cryptozoo, raised over 18 mil and the game was never real. Faze clan and sam pepper Save the Kids token, relatively small amount of 80k but disgusting that they would use a charitable front to rob people. The list goes on. People who have straight up said on camera, they lied, they took the money, and they are not planning on giving it back. Not a day in jail, not even a trial.

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        People are OK with a system that gives them a chance at becoming rich, and so long as they are successful doing it, it doesn’t matter how they did it.

        Prosperity gospel. Money = good. By the transitive property if you get money you are doing “good”.

        It’s self serving broken logic.

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          5 months ago

          So people don’t mind living in a greedy society because they are greedy? I guess the follow up question would be are the majority of people greedy and selfish with no plans to make a better future for the next generations?

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              5 months ago

              There have been quite a few red flags in global news, especially recently with the pandemic chaos but even more recently, I would hope that a literal criminal being voted in for their second term would be enough of a red flag for people to realize something might be wrong with our system?