Or by her participating that she is knowingly involving herself in a scam. Which, yeah, it’s just books - but it’s pretty obviously a pyramid.
If you don’t see it, and there’s no shame in that, she gives one book to her upline. She then sends out post to “36” more people to give her 36 books. Each one of them then needs to find 36 people each, which is now 1296 people in that level if they each want 36 books. Thus the exponential pyramid. Of course there is zero way each of them will find that many people, let alone the levels below that. It’s a scam that benefits those higher up, and the ones lower will likely not receive anything.
Of course she sees nothing wrong with that. She said “Sometimes I get books, sometimes I don’t, that’s just part of the game”. Which… it’s not a game when it’s real money being passed around.
On top of that, whenever we see a pyramid scheme we should be stamping it out - hard. Folks, please spot the signs and point them out. Don’t be afraid to comment on posts calling them out as scams.
Fisk400@feddit.nu 11 months ago
At some point I feel it is just easier to go to the library. You need to return the books but they are also not random books the sender didn’t want.
reflex@kbin.social 11 months ago
Local library might even have an ebook lending service. I which case, you wouldn't even need to go anywhere. And the ebooks automatically return themselves.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 11 months ago
FUCK I’ve been wasting so many USB drives
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
not only that, but if you chat up the librarians, they can usually turn you onto new books you’ll enjoy. I’ve… been steered wrong like twice. And then it was a ‘well you’re either gonna love it or not, so, try it and tell me.’ kind of thing.
also, take a look at all the other stuff the libraries are doing… (well, my local library is phenomenal.)
thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The aim of ‘chatting up’ seems different in a library :D
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 11 months ago
…chat TO the librarians.
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Keep it in your pants, man.