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In any scam, any con, any hustle, the big winners are the people who supply the scammers - not the scammers themselves. The kids selling dope on the corner are making less than minimum wage, while the respectable crime-bosses who own the labs clean up. Desperate "retail investors" who buy shitcoins from Superbowl ads get skinned, while the MBA bros who issue the coins make millions (in real dollars, not crypto).
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Hustle culture and passive income are about turning other peoples' dollars into your dimes. It is a negative-sum activity, a net drain on society. Behind every seemingly successful "passive income" is a con artist who's getting rich by promising - but not delivering - that elusive passive income, and then blaming the victims for not hustling hard enough:
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/12/blueprint-trouble
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I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:
http://thebezzle.org
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@[email protected] should this entire thread be on public visibility? feels like spam when you post it tbh
@aen_[email protected] https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads/
A nice mastodon display tip from @[email protected]
@[email protected] whoa thanks ๐, i didn't know you could do that
honestly still makes it kinda unreadable but i subscribe to the email newsletter anyway
@aen_[email protected] Thanks!