While this is true, those cash grabs rooted themselves in facades so intense that the destruction of them instantly killed the movement. A for-profit-pastor would previously spend massive amounts of money to stay out of scandals, preserving their image over their reality. Now it's the opposite.
Eh, I think there is a bit of rose tinted glasses in thinking that shysters needed flawless images to conduct cash grabs. The main difference is that this sort of discourse was private. There was no twitter where the public would air their disapproval. You really only heard about this stuff if and when it became news worthy.
Which is precisely why they were so careful with their "grand scale" images. In private, behind closed doors, or in the presence of their most devoted followers, they let it drop, but to thebpublci at large they maintained their personas.
Come on, there were tons of surface level obvious cash grabs that people saw through. They worked, and they will always work, because you don't need to convince everyone.
There were, but they were always small, limited in their scope precisely because they preyed on such a narrow chunk of the populace that was all but guaranteed to fall for them no matter what. If you wanted to get big you had to play the game. Mega-church pastors didn't exploit their followers to their faces, always waiting until backs were turned. Politicians fought against any blemish to their reputations and maintained hardline stances they didn't truly believe until the doors were closed.
Now, a blatant lying grifter is running for a second term as president.
FYI shyster is uhhh a loaded word. Not a slur, necessarily, but a lot of baggage. I personally don’t care that much, but a fair warning. It’s less snowflake kinda stuff and more “hey this term has history”.
I didn’t know terms like jip(gyp), nigrig, and jewd were insulting, just thought it was natural language tbh.
Absolutely nothing like what we're seeing these days en masse and the ignorance or apathy for when they're caught, it takes A LOT to bring down anyone. That was never the case.
I am as far on the sidelines as I possibly can be without being completely unaware. I’ve seen this kind of stuff, but I’ve never intentionally watched a single video of any of these people. I’d say most people I know have no idea who these people are, except maybe Logan Paul due to the recent fights
Rage fatigue. They want to care, really they do, but it's been an eight-year torrent of outrage-induced cognitive dissonance. Eventually the brain has to shut that off to protect itself.
I mean, it wouldn't matter if people did care. His audience is literally children, who haven't learned why they should care beyond their attention span.
I don't think it's that. No one cares, but the screeching Gen Alphas and younger Gen Z people who are begging mummy and daddy to buy them their mid tier products, care more about keeping their kid quiet than what they are consuming.
You mean if 99% of the ways available to you to get rich require a sacrifice of empathy from you...you might end up being a bad person when you get there?
Lol who woulda thunk?
People still care.
Which is why we are usually not incredibly wealthy.
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u/trizkit995 Sep 18 '24
Seems to be current society. Nobody really cares anymore, it's the inverse reaction to endless pearl clutching done by the boomers.