The "sales people" trying to get you to buy crypto or leggings or supplements are engaged in predatory conduct that will make you financially and socially worse off, wrecking their communities' finances and shattering the mutual aid survival networks they rely on. But they're not getting rich on this - they're *also* being scammed:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4686468
9/
Cory Doctorow /
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2024-01-15 16:30:28
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