This one was really odd for me. I decided to watch it mainly cause I haven't seen Dunst in anything in such a long time, and I used to like her back in the day. And this show is really good at telling a story of fraud, desperation and hope.
Living on Balkans, where everyone is desperate and wants to get rich, I've had fair share of people trying to push me onto pyramid schemes. They are so convinced that this will work, that it's like a religion (just as the show portrays it), they can't understand why you wouldn't want to be a part of it, so they keep pushing, until they push you so hard you block their phone number, and never look back.
You know it's not worth trying to pull them out, religion works like that, when some fakeness gives ppl hope, no amount of reasoning would pull them out, exactly as no amount of them pushing can get you in. It's futile trying to get them out. Who knows, maybe they've already spent so much of their own money, that no matter what doubts they now have, they can't just get out, they need to get that money back. Or it's just the crazy religious hope that won't let them back out until they have nothing left. Definitely nothing you can do about that, except block them for good.
It's huge disservice, bordering on grand treason, that states aren't teaching children in school's how to recognize these schemes, and other similar schemes, so that no one ever gets into them.
And, when news is quiet, you keep thinking "everyone knows about these, no one would fall for it these days". But, I thought that back when that bit-something thing happened. It used the general fascination with bitcoin, to pull people in, onto fake crypto currency that then exploded into all of it's participants faces. So clearly, ppl still don't know and can still fall for it. And in future, they will look ever so slightly different. Like how that one used bitcoin's popularity, some future one might use intersectionality, or whatever becomes buzz word that everyone is pushing but many don't really understand.
Initially I thought she would progress through the system until she becomes a leader, who then takes a fall when fbi finally gets onto it, but with few episodes left, it doesn't seem that's where it's going. So that's good, I do hope she manages to expose it all, and hopefully end up better off.
Anyhow, really hard to watch because of how close it feels. People within such system, just don't understand how hurtful and insulting it is when they try to drag you in. Just horrible.
Living on Balkans, where everyone is desperate and wants to get rich, I've had fair share of people trying to push me onto pyramid schemes. They are so convinced that this will work, that it's like a religion (just as the show portrays it), they can't understand why you wouldn't want to be a part of it, so they keep pushing, until they push you so hard you block their phone number, and never look back.
You know it's not worth trying to pull them out, religion works like that, when some fakeness gives ppl hope, no amount of reasoning would pull them out, exactly as no amount of them pushing can get you in. It's futile trying to get them out. Who knows, maybe they've already spent so much of their own money, that no matter what doubts they now have, they can't just get out, they need to get that money back. Or it's just the crazy religious hope that won't let them back out until they have nothing left. Definitely nothing you can do about that, except block them for good.
It's huge disservice, bordering on grand treason, that states aren't teaching children in school's how to recognize these schemes, and other similar schemes, so that no one ever gets into them.
And, when news is quiet, you keep thinking "everyone knows about these, no one would fall for it these days". But, I thought that back when that bit-something thing happened. It used the general fascination with bitcoin, to pull people in, onto fake crypto currency that then exploded into all of it's participants faces. So clearly, ppl still don't know and can still fall for it. And in future, they will look ever so slightly different. Like how that one used bitcoin's popularity, some future one might use intersectionality, or whatever becomes buzz word that everyone is pushing but many don't really understand.
Initially I thought she would progress through the system until she becomes a leader, who then takes a fall when fbi finally gets onto it, but with few episodes left, it doesn't seem that's where it's going. So that's good, I do hope she manages to expose it all, and hopefully end up better off.
Anyhow, really hard to watch because of how close it feels. People within such system, just don't understand how hurtful and insulting it is when they try to drag you in. Just horrible.