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I think Sean Carroll for instance does a much better job at this when he interviews people whose views he disagrees with in his podcasts, which happens quite frequently.
Those lottery phone scams out of Jamaica which target the elderly in the US are almost the exact same scam as what was described here.
Promise something, get them to send money, don’t deliver, tell them you need more time/more money. Keep repeating until the mark walks away.
I think this is due to the perceived value of proximity not keeping up with technology. The "real" value of proximity fell as technology improved, and that was exposed during the pandemic. It's more of a correction than outright destruction, but it's not wrong that the overall asset class lost value.
I too am guilty of trusting the Reddit concencus when searching, and if there were a few legitimate looking threads that had been planted I probably would have eaten them up.
Sure you get the occassional comment or link share, but I'm talking like 300+ comment thread carefully executed.
The steady progress of the Industrial Revolution that has made the average person unimaginably richer and healthier several times over, looks in the moment just like this:
"Oh no, entire industries of people are being made obsolete, and will have to beg on the streets now".
And yet, as jobs and industries are automated away, we keep getting richer and healthier.