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Bady to [email protected] • 2 years ago

What are some notable scams in history that went unnoticed for so long?

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What are some notable scams in history that went unnoticed for so long?

Bady to [email protected] • 2 years ago
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  • @[email protected]
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    51•2 years ago

    Capitalism and the interest based investor economy.

    • PorkRollWobbly
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      22•2 years ago

      “I own this machine and everything you create with it” is a fundamentally flawed way to run a society.

  • ssillyssadass
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    41•2 years ago

    Old Egypt was full of pyramid schemes way back then

  • @[email protected]
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    30•2 years ago

    HR departments in corporate jobs.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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    49•2 years ago

    Capitalism

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    29•2 years ago

    Capitalism

    • build_a_bear_group [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2•2 years ago

      more like Crapitalism

  • @[email protected]
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    5•2 years ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlowTex

    For Germany, though it was big but not “too long”

  • Tofu_Lewis [he/him]
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    4•2 years ago

    En clo sure of he commens duh

  • 👁️👄👁️
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    81•2 years ago

    Lotteries. They’re just tax for poor people.

  • @[email protected]
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    17•2 years ago

    Neoliberalism!

    The second is financialization.

    Both are huge scams still running.

  • @[email protected]
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    5•2 years ago

    Christianity, Cocacola, all “luxury” brand, russia is strong, McDonalds, burgerkin, kfc, google “dont be evil”, microsoft, facebook/meta, etc

  • albertsy2
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    11•2 years ago

    Religion

  • @[email protected]
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    28•2 years ago

    I’m going to go with the great wine fraud

    • BadyOP
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      5•2 years ago

      Took a glimpse at the article and it seems they could’ve gone uncaught for longer if they were a little more careful with the dates!

    • Saintpaul
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      5•2 years ago

      That was a fun read. Thanks for posting.

    • @[email protected]
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      4•2 years ago

      There’s a documentary about this guy. I think I watched it on Netflix.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sour_Grapes_(2016_film)

  • @[email protected]
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    31•2 years ago

    ITT: Things people personally think are scammy, but not actual legally-defined scams.

  • @[email protected]
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    16•2 years ago

    Are we allowed to mention capitalism and brexit?

  • leftofthat [he/him]
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    4•2 years ago

    deng-cowboy

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