Fraud has certainly increased as people find new ways to exploit the internet across borders with no accountability. It's not just online either, even kids are playing at misappropriation in doing things like soliciting donations from family to their college tuition funds and then just...not going to college (or taking one class at a time to look like they're actively attending, and pocketing the tuition).
Influencers celebrate and encourage this stuff, because everyone older than you is just selfish and deserves to be scammed. Great role models. Being in my stepdaughter's life has been like watching the development of the human incarnation of the Fraud Examiners' Manual. She used to be listed as a beneficiary of my life insurance policy. At this point the only (and I mean only) chapters she hasn't attempted are the ones requiring abuse of one's own assets or credentials (kickbacks, arson, etc.), which are impossible schemes to execute when you've earned neither.
The mental health awareness stuff has scaled with it too. It used to be you moved to the big city for work, and when it got to be too much to handle you'd migrate out to the suburbs or country. But the internet made it so big-city, in-your-face hustle culture follows us literally everywhere. Everyone is out to fuck you. There's no peace or escape from the madness anymore. No wonder everyone has anxiety.
Influencers celebrate and encourage this stuff, because everyone older than you is just selfish and deserves to be scammed. Great role models. Being in my stepdaughter's life has been like watching the development of the human incarnation of the Fraud Examiners' Manual. She used to be listed as a beneficiary of my life insurance policy. At this point the only (and I mean only) chapters she hasn't attempted are the ones requiring abuse of one's own assets or credentials (kickbacks, arson, etc.), which are impossible schemes to execute when you've earned neither.
The mental health awareness stuff has scaled with it too. It used to be you moved to the big city for work, and when it got to be too much to handle you'd migrate out to the suburbs or country. But the internet made it so big-city, in-your-face hustle culture follows us literally everywhere. Everyone is out to fuck you. There's no peace or escape from the madness anymore. No wonder everyone has anxiety.