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Friday, November 1

Scam Mechanics [SocioPolitico]

I adore an analysis that finds a root explanation explaining a number of related effects - hence my interest in the loosely-coupled idea as an explanation of Java, XML, Web services and whatever is next. Teresa Nielsen Hayden has had an ah-ha moment on scams [via Boing Boing]. Her entertaining and readable taxonomy of scams comes to the delightful conclusion that all of them have in common the exploitation of the desire not to be one of the 'little guys' any more.
These scams take the forms they do because they're parodies--no, a better way to put it: they're cargo-cult effigies--of the deals the ruling class cut for themselves.
A delightful insight, I'm now noodling away trying to fit other problems to that explanation.

posted at 3:27 PM (UK) | |

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