Grifts are undertheorized, and too often conflated with long cons, scams, frauds and other more blatant soft crimes. Lemme offer a definition. A grift is a scheme that profits from the existence of a real problem without actually addressing it.
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Replying to @vgr
This reminds me of Frankfurt’s idea of bullshit. Would writing a book on grifts be like a meta-grift?
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Replying to @izzyz
Heh, yeah. In fact that was on my mind as I started this thread.
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