>>13971393Source for that claim? I've known plenty of men who sucked into various schemes. Most of these guys were otherwise apparently quite bright and functional in their own areas of expertise, but dumb as fuck in other areas.
Classic example was a mlm magazine which published "inventions" which people could invest in. The mag cost $200 a copy. Seriously. A subscription was 6 mags a year. He wanted to get me subscribed ( through him of course) and just couldn't grasp it when I explained it was a mlm scam. Basically a legal ponzi scheme.
I looked through a few copies of these fucking $200 mags. The first few had some good ideas, desu. But nothing spectacular. And as anyone knows there are lots of of great ideas and inventions floating around out there, but that doesn't mean they are necessarily viable or profitable. He stayed with it for about three years, desperately trying to pedal these magazines subscriptions onto anyone he could. Basically the way it worked you had to onsell dozens of subscriptions to just break even. I think he found one other sucker, who then dropped out after one year. A year later I checked out some of later magazines he had got. By this time the "inventions" were 99% vague descriptions of equally vague schematics of electrical circuits designed by Indian "engineers". Hilarious shit except he lost out a few grand on this experience. But I couldn't feel sorry for him, he got angry because in his view people he tried to sell this shit to were not ambitious and forward thinking enough. Nice enough guy, clever and talented in his own field, but in this regard dumb as bricks
