Monday, January 28, 2019
Those courses did exist after all
Yesterday I wrote:
There was never an academic department teaching How To Counterfeit Stock Certificates. There was never an academic department teaching Methods Of Brooklyn Bridge Salesmanship. There was never an academic department teaching MLM Cult Development.
School courses often discussed those old scams AS EXAMPLES OF SCAMS, but never trained students to PERFORM the scams. Now schools are openly training scammers.
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Thinking about this in parallel to the 50th anniversary of my 1969 jail experience.
In fact there WAS a school that trained scammers, and I was IN IT for 9 months. That's a typical school year!
If I had understood how the world works, I would have taken full advantage of the curriculum. I would have learned safecracking and theft and scamming and boxing. I would have misbehaved and added more time to the sentence to gain even more training.
My innate skills and strength weren't fitted for plain old thug work, but I could have been a BRILLIANT counterfeiter or a slimy mob accountant.
This isn't a choice between known then vs known now. A correct understanding of the world was available at the time. I was just too stupid to acquire it or absorb it. 
Labels: Answered better than asked, Jail mode
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