I think we should treat people who get scammed and come out and talk about it like heroes. And this is important: no matter how "obvious" the scam might seem in retrospect or from the outside of the community it prey'd on.
The more I look at scams the more I think this is major factor in how they keep going and keep coming back.
People should not be ashamed of being scammed. Grifters' tricks are designed to bypass your critical thinking skills, and they can get you no matter how smart you are.
Different tricks for different people.
Yes. YOU would never have fallen for that, but there are things you would fall for.
@jjLitke @futurebird @suetanvil I've gotten scammed by being too tired and just kind of mindlessly doing what was asked of me, in ways that I couldn't even explain in the light of day.
I wonder what the mental health toll is for a region of people who have to constantly be knives out for scams, how that exhausting vigilance erodes your sense of safety and community as a population.
I think the sociologists and anthropologists could tell us! Iirc there’s a big difference between high trust and low trust societies.
More vaguely… middle trust isn’t stable, high and low trust are attractors? The compromise is high trust only in in groups? (And that can get broken.) Trade and technology depends on trust a *lot*?
*Oof*.
I wonder if that's the end state of in-group trust, or the vulnerability that breaks it, or what.
There's also a lot of stuff on what maintains trust and IIRC big candidate is swift reliable universal punishment of trust-breaking. You can let people make amends and get back in (maybe you have to? i forget) but you gotta actually punish.
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