>> I mean, short of locking them in a rubber room, what can be done
with
>> the HYIP/MLM perpetual victims? I've spoken to quite a few, both
via
>> the internet and in person, and most don't seem to be noticeably
>> mentally retarded (or whatever the politically correct term for it
is
>> these days). I suspect there is a part of their brain which deals
>> with financial matters which is deficient.
>I guess you also believe that the millions and millions of people who
regularly vist casinos, race tracks and sports books and the multi
millions
>who regularly play the various lotteries are mentally deficient in
financial
matters, right? This must be the case as the percentage of these
people who
>are winners in these various "games" is incredibly small, probably
even
>smaller than those in HYIP/MLM.
As a matter of fact, yes. Compulsive gambling is a serious problem
for many people. I have a mild case of it myself. Psychologists are
recognising that the repetitive physical tasks are very habit-
forming. Additionally gambling doesn't make financial sense if you
think about it, because the more you gamble the less the odds work in
your favour, as 'the house' always wins overall (and that's assuming
the games aren't rigged). Gambling is a scam too, although I believe
you would find it is far less of a scam (in terms of
misrepresentation) than HYIPs. The ONLY people who make serious money
from HYIP and MLM are the instigators. Anyone who can come into a
scheme and make money out of it would be better off setting up some
sort of real sales business themselves and sell real products in the
real world.
>>My solution would be to
> not let them have any money, or alternately run a 'pretend'
currency.
>"My solution"???? Solution to what? Why is this be a problem for
you?
Every problem needs a solution, if only as an intellectual challenge.
You may not think it's a problem for you personally. But you might
get a surprise one day. Perhaps a close friend or relative will be
ruined via sending all their money to a scam in Costa Rica promising
to triple their money in 24 hours. Maybe your broker will be arrested
for investing your funds at the racetrack. Someone might jump off a
building and land on you.
>If you want to apply the "My solution" to something useful. why not
go to over populated third world countries and get the governments
there to issue those people pretend children? Or, maybe life size
blow up dolls so those "perpetual victims" whose brains are
deficient in sexual matters, can have pretend sex and not create all
those babies causing that over population.
Procreation is a natural human activity. The problems of third world
overpopulation are not, IMO, anything to do with mental deficiency
but products of cruel weather patterns, perpetual wars as a result of
post-colonialism (and neo-colonialism), disease etc. Infant mortality
rates (via poor health and nutrition) and the underdeveloped
economies are the major factor. Farming families who rely on their
children to provide labour will have more as insurance against some
of them dying in infancy. These are perfectually natural (and not
unsound)
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