One of the best things we could do to decrease the impact of scams in the world is to outcompete Evil, Inc. for their specialists and mid-level managers by opening up the hiring window where Evil, Inc. operates.
Scene: performance review season at Evil, Inc.
Director of Engineering: I'm really concerned about turnover on your team this year.
Line manager: Look, I don't set the budgets. I only pay what you give me. Google pays more. What do you #%()#%ing want from me.
DoE: #&%ing Google.
Director of Engineering: I'm really concerned about turnover on your team this year.
Line manager: Look, I don't set the budgets. I only pay what you give me. Google pays more. What do you #%()#%ing want from me.
DoE: #&%ing Google.
Some people might think I'm speaking in a metaphor here, but mostly no, I think a large portion of all scams by dollar impact are run by professionals at organizations which note-for-note resemble well-operated capitalist businesses. Quarterly targets, payroll, HR managers, etc.
Scams aren't so different than SaaS companies.
You can run them as an artisan in a bathrobe, and that has been done before, but there's a competitive marketplace, prices for leads increase as specialized operators build businesses processes to metabolize them, and pros win.
You can run them as an artisan in a bathrobe, and that has been done before, but there's a competitive marketplace, prices for leads increase as specialized operators build businesses processes to metabolize them, and pros win.
In equilibrium you should generally expect artisans on the fringes panning for gold and professionals sitting in air-conditioned offices in what were formerly mining towns.
