The crypto conmen got conned by the grifter in chief. Poetic justice at work 🙂

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      20 hours ago

      This is the consequence of capitalism and intergenerational wealth

      They inherited it from their parents, and because they were rich, they didn’t bother getting an education

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        5 hours ago

        There’s more to it than that but of course that is a large part of it. We live in a society that prefers to reward a confident idiot to a pensive expert; essentially we reward dunning krueger.

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      1 day ago

      I’ve got bad news for you about what that says about the rest of us lol.