this is the first post I see mentioning this. gambling debt is the driver for all kinds of criminal activity in these countries. men will get drunk and gamble their motorbike, their fucking house, their parents house. they burn money as an offering, hoping their dead ancestors will show them more clues about lucky numbers.
loan sharks will call their place of work and harass them, threaten their wife and children. the guy will steal from his family members, maybe gamble some more hoping to have better luck. they have a dream about a goat turning to the left and stamping its foot a certain number of times and then turning to the right and taking a shit.
this is completely normal. it’s culturally accepted. so many of these guys are completely fucked, and have completely screwed over their wives and their parents and their brother’s families.
the other thing that gets them into trouble are blatant cheesy scams that no american would fall for unless they were like 90 years old with dementia. the level of effort required to lure these people is unbelievably low. they send a little bit of money to the scammer and then they send more and then more and the scammer just eventually bleeds them dry. pyramid schemes and shit like that. they borrow money from the friends in order to get their money out, and then their friends money is gone too. and of course his friend lent him money, because friends in these countries always lend each other money. everyone is lending money to everyone else.
my family members that live here are being scammed constantly. my mother-in-law has fallen for scams on facebook multiple times this year. she is spending retirement money on scams. it’s like they’ve got a scam budget. money is switching hands between family members and then flowing out into scams. “hey look at this I think you should try it” and then the scammer has multiple people in the same family sending money.
they didn’t really have the internet until just a few decades ago. other cultures grew out of this shit, but these guys have no idea. they’re extremely vulnerable. I think multiple generations need to pass before the population has any immunity to this sort of thing.
Kind of reminds me of a story my brother told of some country in Africa. He was friendly with some kids on the street and showed them how to set up an email address. So one day they came excitedly up to him and told him that they met someone and that they would be rich. Of course he immediately clocked the familiar scam.
He explained the whole situation by telling them that the internet was like the street. Don’t trust anyone. That was an analogy they got pretty quickly.
Yeah, I don’t understand this either. If someone offered me to make me rich by paying him 10 bucks on the street, I’d tell him to fuck off and evaluate my chances in a fight and/or escape route. But as soon as a computer is involved, some people’s brain shuts off or something.
it’s all Facebook and phone from what I’ve observed. but it’s the same shit. and the schemes are not complicated. invest your money here and see it double in a week. invest more to earn more. they let people withdraw a little bit to earn trust, and when they’ve got a shitload of money they ghost.
there are fake businesses everywhere too. send money for some product or service and get nothing. easy.
Education and economic opportunity aren’t really genetically moderated. Unless you mean it’s going to take multiple generations’ time strictly because it may take decades to improve upon those because such infrastructure and policy has a lot of resistance from the ruling class.
this is the first post I see mentioning this. gambling debt is the driver for all kinds of criminal activity in these countries. men will get drunk and gamble their motorbike, their fucking house, their parents house. they burn money as an offering, hoping their dead ancestors will show them more clues about lucky numbers.
loan sharks will call their place of work and harass them, threaten their wife and children. the guy will steal from his family members, maybe gamble some more hoping to have better luck. they have a dream about a goat turning to the left and stamping its foot a certain number of times and then turning to the right and taking a shit.
this is completely normal. it’s culturally accepted. so many of these guys are completely fucked, and have completely screwed over their wives and their parents and their brother’s families.
the other thing that gets them into trouble are blatant cheesy scams that no american would fall for unless they were like 90 years old with dementia. the level of effort required to lure these people is unbelievably low. they send a little bit of money to the scammer and then they send more and then more and the scammer just eventually bleeds them dry. pyramid schemes and shit like that. they borrow money from the friends in order to get their money out, and then their friends money is gone too. and of course his friend lent him money, because friends in these countries always lend each other money. everyone is lending money to everyone else.
my family members that live here are being scammed constantly. my mother-in-law has fallen for scams on facebook multiple times this year. she is spending retirement money on scams. it’s like they’ve got a scam budget. money is switching hands between family members and then flowing out into scams. “hey look at this I think you should try it” and then the scammer has multiple people in the same family sending money.
they didn’t really have the internet until just a few decades ago. other cultures grew out of this shit, but these guys have no idea. they’re extremely vulnerable. I think multiple generations need to pass before the population has any immunity to this sort of thing.
Kind of reminds me of a story my brother told of some country in Africa. He was friendly with some kids on the street and showed them how to set up an email address. So one day they came excitedly up to him and told him that they met someone and that they would be rich. Of course he immediately clocked the familiar scam.
He explained the whole situation by telling them that the internet was like the street. Don’t trust anyone. That was an analogy they got pretty quickly.
Yeah, I don’t understand this either. If someone offered me to make me rich by paying him 10 bucks on the street, I’d tell him to fuck off and evaluate my chances in a fight and/or escape route. But as soon as a computer is involved, some people’s brain shuts off or something.
We’re still great apes
Doesn’t sound very great to me
Have you seen lemurs and stuff? They’re tiny.
Well, you see, according to some mythology, the internet is the place of all ideas; thus it is compared to Platon’s notion of “heaven”.
Now, people have been told for generations that “heaven is a good place”, and since the internet approximates heaven, people trust it way too much.
it’s all Facebook and phone from what I’ve observed. but it’s the same shit. and the schemes are not complicated. invest your money here and see it double in a week. invest more to earn more. they let people withdraw a little bit to earn trust, and when they’ve got a shitload of money they ghost.
there are fake businesses everywhere too. send money for some product or service and get nothing. easy.
it’s complete anarchy.
Unfortunately the scams will continue to develop in sophistication also.
Education and economic opportunity aren’t really genetically moderated. Unless you mean it’s going to take multiple generations’ time strictly because it may take decades to improve upon those because such infrastructure and policy has a lot of resistance from the ruling class.
genetics have absolutely nothing to do with it at all