Why is it hard to criticize people for being part of a scam operation? It's so morally and ethically bankrupt that it's really easy and valid to criticize someone for
Who is being scammed? The only people buying into tokens as obscure as these are degenerate gamblers who know very well that it's not any kind of an investment.
It's absolutely marketed as an investment, and solely used and referenced by people saying it is an investment. This is like saying those cannabis paraphernalia shops are marketed as only for tobacco.
But people do. There are people who genuinely think crypto is an investment. Yes, smart people knows it is just a grift and that it is just about selling it on to the next person before it crashes. But is it moral to make money on stupid people? Many people lose all their money on gambling even if we always known gambling is a loss.
You don't have to be smart to understand they're very, very, very obviously saying it's an investment and using extremely superficial cover. All things like these are exclusively pennystock scams.
You're being bamboozled. Google the name of it. Search it on Twitter and 4chan. Watch any Coffeezilla video.
Why is it hard to criticize people for being part of a scam operation? It's so morally and ethically bankrupt that it's really easy and valid to criticize someone for
Who is being scammed? The only people buying into tokens as obscure as these are degenerate gamblers who know very well that it's not any kind of an investment.
That sounds like victim blaming to me
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Because you'd be aiding and abetting a pennystock scam.
The difference between bags.fm and pennystock scams is that bags.fm is very obviously not marketed as an investment, but a crowdfunding tool.
It's absolutely marketed as an investment, and solely used and referenced by people saying it is an investment. This is like saying those cannabis paraphernalia shops are marketed as only for tobacco.
Yegge write a blog post for his readers where he called it an investment and hoped the investors would get “filthy rich”.
But people do. There are people who genuinely think crypto is an investment. Yes, smart people knows it is just a grift and that it is just about selling it on to the next person before it crashes. But is it moral to make money on stupid people? Many people lose all their money on gambling even if we always known gambling is a loss.
> There are people who genuinely think crypto is an investment.
Sure! Are those people buying bags.fm tokens? Probably not.
This isn't even marketed as an investment https://bags.fm but a crowdfunding tool for developers with a casino attached.
You don't have to be smart to read the big text on the website.
You don't have to be smart to understand they're very, very, very obviously saying it's an investment and using extremely superficial cover. All things like these are exclusively pennystock scams.
You're being bamboozled. Google the name of it. Search it on Twitter and 4chan. Watch any Coffeezilla video.
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Yegge write a blog post for his readers where he called it an investment and hoped the investors would get “filthy rich”.