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    ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 Dec 2021

    1/ There's so much grift these days. I'm defining "grift" not as blatant fraud, but as non-virtuous, non euvoluntary trade, where one side definitely benefits and the other is left satisfied, in the sense that they THINK they have acquired something of value, but haven't.

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      2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 Dec 2021

        2/ Examples: * Roman McClay's books and patreon, selling confused and angry young men a "philosophy" that glamorizes revenge and murder * Jack Murph's "Liminal Order" where you pay $100 / month to join a secret clubhouse and network with other alphas

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      3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 Dec 2021

        3/ * Ivan Throne's "Feast of War" where awkward young men pay for their own food, their own drinks, and then pay again for Ivan's presence, where he tells them about how he's descended from a long line of ninjas and advisors to royalty

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      4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 Dec 2021

        4/ * Adam Lane Smith's $99 "Write Like a Beast" video course https://adamlanesmithbooks.gumroad.com/l/WLABD  where he teaches you how to write terrible, embarrassingly bad novels as quickly and as uncreatively as he does.

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      5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 Dec 2021

        5/ (as a side note, a lot of these ebook grifters promote each other. It's like Glengarry Glennross - once you get a mark for a scam, you squeeze him, and then you sell the leads downstream to the next grifter. Adam Smith, for example, was friends w and promoted Roman McClay)

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      6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 Dec 2021

        6/ There's always been fraud. There's always been grift...but it seems like there's so much of it now. Not just the ebook grifters, but the first batch of lawyers who preyed on Kyle Rittenhouse and his supporters, the Popehat-adjacent porn lawyer who cut an illegal side deal

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      7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 Dec 2021

        7/ ...with his employer's rival (pocketing a bribe) and then generated a fictitious sexual harassment complain, the list just goes on. Corey Doctorow and the whole self-promote Boing Boing crew. It's everywhere you look.

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      8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 Dec 2021

        8/ Sociopaths seem to prey on the geeks and MOPS faster and harder than ever beforehttps://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths …

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      9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 Dec 2021

        9/ I think there's a lot more of it now than there was before. Let's hop back to 1980. There were low value / non-euvoluntary grifts. Boiler room stock selling operations, mediocre ambulance chaser attorneys, guys selling timeshares.

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      10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 Dec 2021

        10/ ...but they weren't EVERYWHERE. They didn't IMMEDIATELY infest every single hobby, every single social movement. I think the difference is that the internet has reduced the friction on things. To set up a grift in 1980 (let's say, to sell timeshares, or a guide to women)

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      11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 Dec 2021

        11/ You'd probably need to rent an office, buy a few tables and chairs, get AT&T to come out and install a dozen phone lines and a PBX, buy a mailing list from some vendor, take out an ad in the newspaper to hire some bodies... it's complicated, takes time, and costs a bit of $

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      12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 31 Dec 2021

        12/ ...but in the current year, you don't need ANY of that. You just start with a keyboard, tweeting and blogging your brand. I think the barrier to entry to grifting is so much lower than it ever was before...and when cost falls, supply increases.

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