In some ways, they’re the least interesting part of the story, because their motive was money and their method was fraud. Bret: Well, I suspect there are ways of gaming that, too, but we’ll have to learn more. Finally, I guess, there’s the meta-lesson here about what this says about the way we live now and our social values. I’m reluctant to draw too large a moral from a scam in which only a tiny fraction of people participated. As I said, I went to a Catholic school that was, back in the day, not on a top rung.

Source: New York Times March 19, 2019 09:56 UTC