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Well, gambling is certainly a tried and true way to make a buck.
Except when your your name is Donald Trump and your father has to come to your casino to buy millions worth in chips to bail you out.
Back in the Facebook days around the turn of the decade, I knew a guy banking thousands weekly on fortune telling apps within Facebook. This was before Facebook started controlling what user data apps could see. He was selling user data to brokers and bragging to us in an Economics 101 class. Scammers will always find ways to suck the vulnerable dry.
It’s the ultimate form of capitalism and trickle up economics. Fits Xitter like a glove.