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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Your example of "ugly" produce (that was your thread right?) is one of my favorite examples of a grift.
12:26 PM - 30 Jun 2020
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