| ▲ | Aurornis 4 hours ago |
| I watched the downfall and eventual jailing of someone who had a great job, career, and family after he started getting involved in cybercrime. As far as I can make sense of it, he enjoyed the thrill of feeling superior to others: Evading the law, exploiting people who viewed as stupid, and enriching himself in the process. He got caught through a mistake that was really dumb in retrospect. I think he believed his intellectual superiority combined with the stupidity of others so much that eventually he couldn’t imagine anyone catching him. |
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| ▲ | kspacewalk2 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| >As far as I can make sense of it, he enjoyed the thrill of feeling superior to others: Evading the law, exploiting people who viewed as stupid, and enriching himself in the process. I sadly see this pattern of thinking far more often than I want to in my fellow eastern Europeans. |
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| ▲ | meindnoch an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | That's just what 40 years of communism does to a society. | | |
| ▲ | elmomle an hour ago | parent [-] | | If communism is the cause, then why would this same mentality be such a massive problem in America? | | |
| ▲ | locknitpicker an hour ago | parent [-] | | > If communism is the cause, then why would this same mentality be such a massive problem in America? By communism I don't think people talk about the philosophical basis of an idealized society, but the totalitarian regime that oppresses a society and keeps the working class constantly in survival mode under the risk of losing it all. |
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| ▲ | kirubakaran 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Let's not generalize, even if you feel like you can say that because you're a member of a group you're generalizing. It's unfair to most of the people in any group being generalized. | | |
| ▲ | quantummagic 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Stereotypes exist for a reason. It's exhausting having to address this concern trolling every single time they're mentioned. Nobody thinks everyone in the group conforms to the stereotype. And they certainly don't need your white knighting. | | |
| ▲ | kirubakaran 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | It isn't "concern trolling" or "white knighting" to call out racism or bigotry, and expect some decency in the discussion. If it is "exhausting" for you to be propagating unfair stereotypes, perhaps stop your bad behavior? | | |
| ▲ | JCTheDenthog an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Your comment assumes, a priori, that the stereotypes are in fact "unfair". I don't know enough about cybercrime rates per capita amongst Eastern Europeans vs. other populations to be able to say if it is actually an unfair stereotype, but it is an indisputable fact (supported by virtually every jurisdiction that tracks crime rates by things like national origin, ethnicity, etc.) that there are population level differences in crime rates. | |
| ▲ | hermannj314 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don't think a person saying Eastern European are observed doing something more than expected is inherently racist. It is a claim he either does or doesn't have evidence for. If he made the claim with insufficient evidence or made the claim in contradiction of the evidence, then it becomes racist, but I don't think making the observation and doing the calculation is the racist part. It is a simple chi-squared goodness-of-fit test. | | |
| ▲ | Swizec an hour ago | parent [-] | | I’m eastern-ish european, is it even racist to say that tech talent in the region is through the roof but for various accidents of history, the best opportunities available to talented people are in cybercrime (both sides)? Not everyone has a hundred tech unicorns in their back yard. I think my country (Slovenia) produced one in its entire history so far and even that was mostly in the US |
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| ▲ | KellyCriterion 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| sounds like Markus Braun & Jan Marsalek / Wirecard, the fraudsters :-D |
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| ▲ | cm2012 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Sounds like Breaking Bad |
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| ▲ | redsocksfan45 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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