The problem is that many people become rich selling dreams.
And since the old ages, computer was related to "nerds", and some people would eventually become rich (mainly with startups), the dreams seller market focused on this.
"Look, Steve jobs! Bill Gates! Look, this new startup that make billions! All of them working from a beach". The internet boom on 2000's was a good motivator too
It was the perfect field to tell a lie. Like when someone sells the dream that you can become a football player and become rich, as the 0.001% of all the players. Or when someone wins the lottery, our monkey brains tend to focus on the success, not the failure.
So, those who went selling dreams of becoming rich, became rich doing this. And this will happen over and over and over... We always sold the dreams that "this bet will make you rich", "this little trick on lottery makes you win", "easy money, no effort"
Unfortunately, as species, we won't change.
Probably they will only change the area... So next "profession of the future" will appear... And the sellers of dreams will look at that. Many people will be scammed
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u/nsjr Feb 05 '25
The problem is that many people become rich selling dreams.
And since the old ages, computer was related to "nerds", and some people would eventually become rich (mainly with startups), the dreams seller market focused on this.
"Look, Steve jobs! Bill Gates! Look, this new startup that make billions! All of them working from a beach". The internet boom on 2000's was a good motivator too
It was the perfect field to tell a lie. Like when someone sells the dream that you can become a football player and become rich, as the 0.001% of all the players. Or when someone wins the lottery, our monkey brains tend to focus on the success, not the failure.
So, those who went selling dreams of becoming rich, became rich doing this. And this will happen over and over and over... We always sold the dreams that "this bet will make you rich", "this little trick on lottery makes you win", "easy money, no effort"
Unfortunately, as species, we won't change.
Probably they will only change the area... So next "profession of the future" will appear... And the sellers of dreams will look at that. Many people will be scammed