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I feel like the Chase "infinite money glitch" people found (it's just very simple, very traceable check fraud that people recorded themselves doing and put it on TikTok) is indicative of a very specific, very stupid mindset. It's people who aren't particularly smart assuming that there are easily exploited holes in the system that have no consequences, that their stupid asses are the first people to think of stealing money from the bank.

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It's also indicative of a mindset that I think Donald Trump and his admirers have, albeit on a smaller scale: this attitude that if you can just figure out how to cheat the system and get away with it, that's ok, regardless of the fact that the "system" you're cheating is made up of people who you're hurting.
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I wonder if the problem is less stupidity more due to not being able to reason more than a couple of steps at once. Without practice, it becomes more mental effort than they are used to and so just skip any sanity checking. I think it's possible that the original video was intended as a prank to see how many people would fall for it, but we'll see in the indictments to follow.

It's an argument for teaching more math word problems, and computer programming. You may never use the math or programming, but your brain will be trained to break down complex problems.

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