Comment by MSFT_Edging
2 days ago
> doesn't force anyone to build an industrialized scam on top of it
The incentives are there. Our economy runs on incentives. Create a vulnerable group and the sharks smell blood in the water.
2 days ago
> doesn't force anyone to build an industrialized scam on top of it
The incentives are there. Our economy runs on incentives. Create a vulnerable group and the sharks smell blood in the water.
Incentives don’t remove agency. They might have incentives… but these are awful scum who deserve nothing but contempt
No but it provides a framework to begin thinking about ways we can protect the vulnerable from these contemptible but totally predictable bad actors.
For example, families forced to publicly beg for money to provide their sick children with treatment. What societal structures enable this situation to occur? Who is profiting off of this structure?
You'd have to be inconscionably crass to profiteer off charities treating kids for cancer ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation "Granting money to charities that rented Trump Organization facilities".
Well, that's a pretty bold stance. Scammers who steal from dying children are bad people? Geez...