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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I lean that way too, largely because it makes the accusation easier to level.
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It's a fuzzy thing. Case by case.
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