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Heather Cox Richardson's avatar

We were talking once about phone scams and I was disgusted that people would fleece the elderly, and a friend of mine said to me that I had to remember that for all of us who operated above the line, trying to be moral and make an honest living, there were just as many who operated below it, in a shadow economy, trying to live by cheating and lying. That always stuck with me. I don't necessarily believe it entirely, but it did sort of wake me up to the idea that maybe bad people weren't just a few misguided outliers.

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MLMinET's avatar

Oh God, I hope this isn’t right ...

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