Gen Zers are so disillusioned with the economy, many say okay to commit fraud

https://fortune.com/2024/07/01/gen-zers-disillusioned-economy-ok-commit-fraud/

by paulpauper • 2 years ago

6 4 2 years ago

Anyone can be president

pjkundert• 2 years ago

Why let the politicians and banksters loot the treasury all by themselves? I guess it makes sense to them "share the wealth", since they'll never have the opportunity to buy a home or raise a family?

It doesn't seem to make sense to me to pursue this path as a politician; didn't work out well for Louis XVI and his ilk, nor for the inevitable populist reformers/revolutionaries like Robespierre.

But, I guess the guillotine is quick, if you've gotta go somehow. I wonder if politicians realize that's where the populist desperation resulting from this plan of theirs ends?

techload• 2 years ago

https://archive.ph/W80sF

paulpauper• 2 years ago

For someone without skills or who has a lot of student loan debt but no job, I can understand thew rationale of rolling the dice on low-scale fraud: if you succeed, you make a lot of money and are possibly set for life. If you fail, you go to a comfy dorm jail for 5 or so years, and then when you get out the prison will help arrange employment opportunities (these will not pay well , but it's better than nothing), and alluding to our era of moral ambiguity, sell the story as a Netflix special and go on the podcast circuit. Sure your record will be shot, but it's not like it matters if your prospects were bleak to begin with.

Gen Zers are so disillusioned with the economy, many say okay to commit fraud

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