Challenge is, they don’t ever MAKE money, they steal it. Just because your mark is uneducated, doesn’t make it ‘ok’ to separate them from their capital. Capital can be money, time, or even just effort. They will always find a way so long as the masses stay conditioned. Instead of brow beating thieves, why not create a solution through education? Or wouldn’t that inevitably pull back the curtain of the entire scam? Capitalism creates competition. Competition creates losers. Slavery is, and was a very lucrative business. Cheers!

The question I always wonder is: Does the purveyor really believe in what he or she is doing or is it an out-and-out fraud? Ultimately, I suppose, it doesn’t matter since the mark is separated from their moola either way.

But what about in-betweeners? One thinks of certain (though not all) Ponzi and pyramid schemes where the perpetrator may truly believe they’re simply creating value and everyone will win out “if only the government will keep out of their business.” The Charles Keating fiasco of the late 1980s is a good example.

On a side note, I agree with the other editors here — your writing is “good enough” though it could stand a bit of paragraphing.

And Mastriani would be your editor. Tsk, tsk.

I don’t think your writing style is bad, it’s just more a matter of the structure of the articles. You have a lot to say, and other than very long paragraphs, (think ADD here, average readers just have problems paying attention to long thought development), and the occasional run on sentence, you provide solid information.

As Xplodyncow stated, prose and the Intarwebs are just mildly antithetical.

Just try to compartmentalise your thoughts into more “reader friendly” paragraphs.