[spoonjim]

Americans are great marks because we are so relentlessly optimistic

[nottorp]

It helps that marketing that is defined as fraud elsewhere is legal for you ... you get used to it.

[heresie-dabord]

From TFA:

"You've probably noticed that online scams are everywhere.

You see them on job recruitment sites, in your text messages,on dating apps and across social media.

And while people are getting better at spotting these scams, scammers are constantly advancing too.

Arguably, the most hurtful,personal and financially damaging of these scams is romance scams"

[BiteCode_dev]

And rich and uneducated.

[throwaway48476]

Western societies have higher social trust which enabled them to outcompete the rest of the world. Business moves at the speed of trust. Now that western society has increasing contact with the low trust world it is regressing to the mean.