Scammers & Jail 2.0

Charles Cormier
2 min readAug 12, 2023

exposing scammers is not the way. just like throwing “criminals” in jail is not the solution.

that’s loose-loose. some folks like scamzilla apparently tried to make it win-loose and expose scammers for money, but that doesn’t scale either. it only makes coffeezilla a scamzilla himself, aka the biggest “scammer” of all. this is just feeding the problem.

just like wallers. sure, easy solution for lowIQ, but what we need is something deeper and more permanent than a jumpable wall. something that scales. for example, technology enabling folks to get education and money online means that folks will give less fracks to jumping from MX to US. They’ll stay there as they can get rich. Just like the MX founders I’m interviewing making 5M/yr. This scales. shoutout/kudos to my nerds building this backend out there.

the real solution is a mix of empathy, and sure, some punishments here and there. But mostly education, guidance and accountability. and mass patience. I’m eager to build the jail of the future. <← it would mostly be a school. online. restrains your access to online tools until you can prove your a net value to society.

empathy is hard and counter-intuitive: our inner beast just wants to counter-attack threats, but if you really want to fix your problem, that’s what’s needed. long term strat always wins. hard thing to do when your…

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Charles Cormier
Charles Cormier

Written by Charles Cormier

Entrepreneur, Co-Founder, Coach, Speaker, Futurist, Endurance Athlete, Husband, Friend, Monk

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