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this is the first post I see mentioning this. gambling debt is the driver for all kinds of criminal activity in these countries. men will get drunk and gamble their motorbike, their fucking house, their parents house. they burn money as an offering, hoping their dead ancestors will show them more clues about lucky numbers.

loan sharks will call their place of work and harass them, threaten their wife and children. the guy will steal from his family members, maybe gamble some more hoping to have better luck. they have a dream about a goat turning to the left and stamping its foot a certain number of times and then turning to the right and taking a shit.

this is completely normal. it’s culturally accepted. so many of these guys are completely fucked, and have completely screwed over their wives and their parents and their brother’s families.

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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Kind of reminds me of a story my brother told of some country in Africa. He was friendly with some kids on the street and showed them how to set up an email address. So one day they came excitedly up to him and told him that they met someone and that they would be rich. Of course he immediately clocked the familiar scam.

He explained the whole situation by telling them that the internet was like the street. Don’t trust anyone. That was an analogy they got pretty quickly.

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- LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah, I don’t understand this either. If someone offered me to make me rich by paying him 10 bucks on the street, I’d tell him to fuck off and evaluate my chances in a fight and/or escape route. But as soon as a computer is involved, some people’s brain shuts off or something.
  
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  - easily3667@lemmus.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    We’re still great apes
    
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  - gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    But as soon as a computer is involved, some people’s brain shuts off or something.
    
    Well, you see, according to some mythology, the internet is the place of all ideas; thus it is compared to Platon’s notion of “heaven”.
    
    Now, people have been told for generations that “heaven is a good place”, and since the internet approximates heaven, people trust it way too much.
    
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- nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  it’s all Facebook and phone from what I’ve observed. but it’s the same shit. and the schemes are not complicated
  
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EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I think multiple generations need to pass before the population has any immunity to this sort of thing.

Unfortunately the scans will continue to develop in sophistication also.

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ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Education and economic opportunity aren’t really genetically moderated. Unless you mean it’s going to take multiple generations’ time strictly because it may take decades to improve upon those because such infrastructure and policy has a lot of resistance from the ruling class.

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- nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  genetics have absolutely nothing to do with it at all
  
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