“I was hoping for either Big Macs or pizza. That would have been better than the food that we were served,” said Nicholas Pinto.

The crypto conmen got conned by the grifter in chief. Poetic justice at work 🙂

  • 4gramsEnglish
    19·
    10 months ago

    When exactly did society decide to give the dumbest people on earth, all the money?

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      This is the consequence of capitalism and intergenerational wealth

      They inherited it from their parents, and because they were rich, they didn’t bother getting an education

      • 4gramsEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        There’s more to it than that but of course that is a large part of it. We live in a society that prefers to reward a confident idiot to a pensive expert; essentially we reward dunning krueger.