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.
the other thing that gets them into trouble are blatant cheesy scams that no american would fall for unless they were like 90 years old with dementia. the level of effort required to lure these people is unbelievably low. they send a little bit of money to the scammer and then they send more and then more and the scammer just eventually bleeds them dry. pyramid schemes and shit like that. they borrow money from the friends in order to get their money out, and then their friends money is gone too. and of course his friend lent him money, because friends in these countries always lend each other money. everyone is lending money to everyone else.
my family members that live here are being scammed constantly. my mother-in-law has fallen for scams on facebook multiple times this year. she is spending retirement money on scams. it’s like they’ve got a scam budget. money is switching hands between family members and then flowing out into scams. “hey look at this I think you should try it” and then the scammer has multiple people in the same family sending money.
they didn’t really have the internet until just a few decades ago. other cultures grew out of this shit, but these guys have no idea. they’re extremely vulnerable. I think multiple generations need to pass before the population has any immunity to this sort of thing.
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.
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.
the other thing that gets them into trouble are blatant cheesy scams that no american would fall for unless they were like 90 years old with dementia. the level of effort required to lure these people is unbelievably low. they send a little bit of money to the scammer and then they send more and then more and the scammer just eventually bleeds them dry. pyramid schemes and shit like that. they borrow money from the friends in order to get their money out, and then their friends money is gone too. and of course his friend lent him money, because friends in these countries always lend each other money. everyone is lending money to everyone else.
my family members that live here are being scammed constantly. my mother-in-law has fallen for scams on facebook multiple times this year. she is spending retirement money on scams. it’s like they’ve got a scam budget. money is switching hands between family members and then flowing out into scams. “hey look at this I think you should try it” and then the scammer has multiple people in the same family sending money.
they didn’t really have the internet until just a few decades ago. other cultures grew out of this shit, but these guys have no idea. they’re extremely vulnerable. I think multiple generations need to pass before the population has any immunity to this sort of thing.
Unfortunately the scams will continue to develop in sophistication also.
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.
genetics have absolutely nothing to do with it at all