Cory Doctorow on Nostr: That means that the people who try to con you are almost always getting conned ...
That means that the people who try to con you are almost always getting conned themselves. Think of #MultiLevelMarketing (#MLM) scams. My forthcoming novel *The Bezzle* opens with a baroque and improbable fast-food #Ponzi in the town of Avalon on the island of Catalina, founded by the chicle monopolist William Wrigley Jr:
http://thebezzle.org4/
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