(cont'd) The extreme focus on having the necessary #WealthMindset for grinding away at low-level scams and dodgy #investments, the determination (sorry) to cloak successful scams as the rewards of superior optimism and faith rather than a paucity of ethics and scruples, has given the whole culture a twisted sort of monetary moralism. Nobody wants to think they're a scammer, a crook with victims, so the culture has redefined such activity as morally good.
I'm reminded of Lorraine Bracco as Karen Hill talking about her gangster husband in Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas: "After a while it was all normal. None of it seemed like crimes. It was just that Henry and his friends were enterprising, while everyone else was sitting on their hands waiting for handouts."
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