One of the best things we could do to decrease the impact of scams in the world is to outcompete Evil, Inc. for their specialists and mid-level managers by opening up the hiring window where Evil, Inc. operates.
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Scams aren't so different than SaaS companies. You can run them as an artisan in a bathrobe, and that has been done before, but there's a competitive marketplace, prices for leads increase as specialized operators build businesses processes to metabolize them, and pros win.
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In equilibrium you should generally expect artisans on the fringes panning for gold and professionals sitting in air-conditioned offices in what were formerly mining towns.
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What do you mean by “open up the hiring window”?
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I'm going to try to be oblique here because I don't want to stigmatize the large number of people and engineers in Location X who aren't participants in fraud. There are, plausibly, 100k+ X-ians who AppAmaGooBookSoft / startups would hire, but they don't hire in X right now.
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https://youtu.be/DMX-Ovf5V9g - you're right. Check out this one
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There's a wonderful review of drug operations in Freakonomics. Multi-level management, sellers living with their parents, and so on
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Pretty sure ML was first applied to porn, then to financial fraud.
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Yes: It's under-appreciated to what extent scams are merely the continuation of capitalism by other means.
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