Opinion | Mikki Kendall: Why con artists and grifters fascinate us. - NBCNewsTHINK
Individuals who are affected by these kinds of scams in real life get angry and engender some sympathy — though, in the case of people scammed by the Fyre Festival and even Delvey, there was as much schadenfreude for their victims as anything — but there’s not the societal disdain for those perpetrators as for smaller-scale actors, like those who commit welfare or disability fraud, who are rarely as telegenic..
American vulnerability to fraud is rooted in exceptionalism — a belief that it can’t happen to us . Similarly, the American dream hinges on a fantasy that we’re all just temporarily bereft millionaires. So perhaps when we see people who look like us, who struggle like us, taking risks for essentially mundane rewards and getting caught, we resent them for reminding us that even the fantasy of being a great grifter is unreasonable.
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