I don't know why you're downvoted. I totally agree.
At some point it became "cool" to throw up a "smoke test" page and deceive people into clicking purchase button on a product that does not exist. All the "influencers" started encouraging people to do that. Till this point it was annoying but it wasn't like they actually charged for it, so it was still legal.
Then came Kickstarter and it became OK to ask for actual money for something they don't even know if they can build. Like the guy below said I don't think the world has significantly changed or anything, and creative people still do creative things.
The thing I'm most annoyed about is in the past I didn't need to see these fake products and their endorsements by people in my network. Now I'm forced to see these. In the past smart people could just avoid pyramid schemes because most people they hang out with are smart enough not to fall into that trap. Nowadays with social media, these scams get spread around way more effectively than the past and I am forced to see them. Not to mention finding out how gullible some of my friends are. I don't hate them for being naive and gullible, but I would rather not know about it if I could. That's what annoys me the most.
At some point it became "cool" to throw up a "smoke test" page and deceive people into clicking purchase button on a product that does not exist. All the "influencers" started encouraging people to do that. Till this point it was annoying but it wasn't like they actually charged for it, so it was still legal.
Then came Kickstarter and it became OK to ask for actual money for something they don't even know if they can build. Like the guy below said I don't think the world has significantly changed or anything, and creative people still do creative things.
The thing I'm most annoyed about is in the past I didn't need to see these fake products and their endorsements by people in my network. Now I'm forced to see these. In the past smart people could just avoid pyramid schemes because most people they hang out with are smart enough not to fall into that trap. Nowadays with social media, these scams get spread around way more effectively than the past and I am forced to see them. Not to mention finding out how gullible some of my friends are. I don't hate them for being naive and gullible, but I would rather not know about it if I could. That's what annoys me the most.