• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        A good scam is all about finding a way to bypass bs detectors. Appealing to greed or fear while adding a sense of urgency are the classic ones for good reason. But you’ve got others like appealing to in group/out group dynamics, distrust of institutions, ego, desired self image, laziness, carelessness so much more. You’ve also got those selecting to trigger anyone with a bs detector to only spend time on those without one.

    • entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf
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      3 hours ago

      Ok - hear me out.

      We get idk 1000 of us poors to buy some cheap land in the Midwest. Up in Appalachia.

      We sell “Rapture Survival Communities”

      They’re $999/month and you’ll get a hidden bungalow community complete with bunker. We’ll fill it with doctors and pastors and birthing women.

      BUT YOU CANT KNOW THE LOCATION UNTIL THE RAPTURE HAPPENS. You don’t want any pesky liberals finding it and gaying up the place with their liberal demonic child sacrifice transness.

      We will deliver coordinates via analog radio and Morse code once the rapture has started.

      By business plan makes Sam Altman hard in his butt:

      1. Collect money
      2. Don’t build anything.
      3. repeat

      When they come screaming for proof and receipts and refunds… Just gaslight them and buy a politician.

    • utopiah@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Unfortunately for you you don’t have what it takes. You need to be a proper psychopath to scam others.

      • tio_bira@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        Sometimes i observe so many ways to get easy money and don’t have to hard work, than i remember than my parents raised my scruples and moral… Would be so easy if i wasn’t

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      I’m working on the grift of all gifts, if you want in, you can buy shares of my grift for $100 each.

      • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
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        3 hours ago

        Wanna help me convince maga that citrus makes people gay? I think we could solve a lot with that.