Comment by Aurornis
7 hours ago
I watched the downfall and eventual jailing of someone who had a great job, career, and family after he started getting involved in cybercrime.
As far as I can make sense of it, he enjoyed the thrill of feeling superior to others: Evading the law, exploiting people who viewed as stupid, and enriching himself in the process.
He got caught through a mistake that was really dumb in retrospect. I think he believed his intellectual superiority combined with the stupidity of others so much that eventually he couldn’t imagine anyone catching him.
>As far as I can make sense of it, he enjoyed the thrill of feeling superior to others: Evading the law, exploiting people who viewed as stupid, and enriching himself in the process.
I sadly see this pattern of thinking far more often than I want to in my fellow eastern Europeans.
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If communism is the cause, then why would this same mentality be such a massive problem in America?
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Let's not generalize, even if you feel like you can say that because you're a member of a group you're generalizing. It's unfair to most of the people in any group being generalized.
Stereotypes exist for a reason. It's exhausting having to address this concern trolling every single time they're mentioned. Nobody thinks everyone in the group conforms to the stereotype. And they certainly don't need your white knighting.
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Generalizing doesn't mean everybody or even most in the group. It means it's a common behavior in the group relative to other groups.
Generalization is a tool, not something inherently bad or evil.
Re-read my comment as it is written and note that my observation does not generalize.
Sounds like Breaking Bad
sounds like Markus Braun & Jan Marsalek / Wirecard, the fraudsters :-D
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