Monday, January 28, 2019
Obvious when you think about it....
Since I'm in hat/tip mode this week, saluting various thinkers who catch a point I missed....
Here's a financial skeptic who hadn't been looking at Tesla before. He put together a list of commonalities between Tesla and other cultscams. Most are thoroughly familiar to cult skeptics, but this one caught me off guard.
Eleventh, both scams were defrauding relatively wealthy people who don’t make compelling victims. Multi-thousand dollar festival ticket buyers and $100k virtue signaling car buyers probably have immense overlap.
I've made a similar parallel of Tesla and Hubbard, but didn't key in on the simple variable of WEALTH.
It's obvious. The Dillinger Rule. Why fish for rich suckers? Because that's where the money is.
Many cults do prey on the poor, or cover a cross section, but focusing on the rich is far more EFFICIENT. When each sucker gives you $100K, you only need a small number of suckers.
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Here's a financial skeptic who hadn't been looking at Tesla before. He put together a list of commonalities between Tesla and other cultscams. Most are thoroughly familiar to cult skeptics, but this one caught me off guard.
Eleventh, both scams were defrauding relatively wealthy people who don’t make compelling victims. Multi-thousand dollar festival ticket buyers and $100k virtue signaling car buyers probably have immense overlap.
I've made a similar parallel of Tesla and Hubbard, but didn't key in on the simple variable of WEALTH.
It's obvious. The Dillinger Rule. Why fish for rich suckers? Because that's where the money is.
Many cults do prey on the poor, or cover a cross section, but focusing on the rich is far more EFFICIENT. When each sucker gives you $100K, you only need a small number of suckers.
¶ 12:07 PM
