Like an Amway victim, these boardroom rubes simply can't *believe* that *all these people* could be in on the con. How could the world spend *trillions* on AI if it's not on a path to profitability? It's not that these guys spent 2008 in a cave - rather, they just lack the object permanence to remember the last time a "Federal Wallet Inspector" approached them at a board meeting and took them for everything:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/#willing-marks
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