Especially disappearing from people with money and power.
> "I can't discuss that. It starts to get very very very scary, very very very fast." According to Bjercke, Dr Ruja never expected OneCoin to grow so big. People involved at the early stages have told him it was never supposed to be a billion-dollar scam. She tried to close it down, he says, but the dark forces wouldn't let her.
Even if you think you are going to get something and profit, one big reason to stay away from scams and fraud is that there are big players in the area that are 1. already established, 2. willing to do much worse things than you to get their way, 3. don't want someone else stepping on their territory. The mafia doesn't let petty thieves steal in their areas. You simply become a pawn to their schemes; then forced to do things you never anticipated having to do.
Also reminds me of the Inner Ring by CS Lewis [1]. Stay away from secret societies, fraud, corruption, and crime. There are some very bad people in the world with some very organized problems.
It's a much simpler life to just be an honest, unknown, middle class person.
> To a young person, just entering on adult life, the world seems full of “insides,” full of delightful intimacies and confidentialities, and he desires to enter them.
> But if he follows that desire he will reach no “inside” that is worth reaching.
This curiosity can lead us to some pretty dark corners of the world. Especially on the internet.
> "I can't discuss that. It starts to get very very very scary, very very very fast." According to Bjercke, Dr Ruja never expected OneCoin to grow so big. People involved at the early stages have told him it was never supposed to be a billion-dollar scam. She tried to close it down, he says, but the dark forces wouldn't let her.
Even if you think you are going to get something and profit, one big reason to stay away from scams and fraud is that there are big players in the area that are 1. already established, 2. willing to do much worse things than you to get their way, 3. don't want someone else stepping on their territory. The mafia doesn't let petty thieves steal in their areas. You simply become a pawn to their schemes; then forced to do things you never anticipated having to do.
Also reminds me of the Inner Ring by CS Lewis [1]. Stay away from secret societies, fraud, corruption, and crime. There are some very bad people in the world with some very organized problems.
It's a much simpler life to just be an honest, unknown, middle class person.
[1] https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/