An interesting thought.

I was listening to another recent Jordan Harbinger podcast (ironically he bought into the Covid narrative) and one of the guests he had online wasa woman who did research about people who are prone to fall for scams and scammers. Turns out (I hope your sitting down) it's most of us. She goes into a couple reasons why.

1. We are wired to believe people. Imagine a world where we spent most of our time thinking the people around us were full of it and could do us harm. How much business would we do? How many of us would get married? Have kids? How much of our civilization is predicated upon a reliance on others to do the right thing?

2. We think we are special. This plays into the scammers hands. We are already primed to believe that good things can and will happen to us. Meanwhile we know at the same time we are all going to die someday. So as great as that hope is, and the importance it is for getting up in the morning, it isn't necessarily going to be true and at some point will not be true. If you can wrap your mind around the fact that you are an unpaid extra in someone else's movie of their life, the less chance you will have at falling for a scam.

3. The people less likely to be scammed are those who are depressed, and have a dim view of self and humanity. And let's face it, that's no way to go through life. There is also a lot to be gained from believing the good in others. We can give that occasional person $80.00 and either think they spent the money to pay for a hotel room for the night, or they bought drugs with it.

The reason why scammers are lying in wait in online chat rooms, and waiting outside of gas stations isn't by accident. They wouldn't hang there if it didn't work. And it's not like just stupid people buy gas and soda from a convenience store.