This is an interesting article from New York Times contributor Taylor Lorenz who looks at how one Instagram user is exposing phony young entrepreneurs. They claim to have become wealthy through legitimate means, yet often dupe their followers into believing that pictures of them sitting in private jets or on expensive cars means they own them. They use this social capital to sell get rich quick schemes to the unsuspecting and often vulnerable people that follow them on Instagram.
“An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
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