Losing Touch With Fairness and Decency
In over 7 years of participating in various 'Get Paid to...' earning opportunities, I've met a lot of really great people. I've also occasionally run across a total lunatic (Hi ET!). And unfortunately, I'm seen a lot of people who seem to be so desperate to make money that they've completely lost any sense of fairness or morality they might've once possessed.
Although I've been dealing with those kinds of people for years, the recent collapse of the 12DailyPro ponzi scam and all the associated drama has made me think about it a lot more than usual. I've often wondered if these people are the same in the 'real world' or if the fact that it's all happening online somehow changes the rules for them.
Then yesterday I started seeing links to the story of the woman who lost her camera in Hawaii. Finally today I followed a link from Gizmodo and read the whole story. What a shocker! If you haven't already heard about it, read it here -- Camera Unlost, But Not Quite Found.
It wouldn't have surprised me if Judith had never heard anything about her lost camera. These days, we just can't expect a lost item, any lost item, to be returned. Especially not if it's valuable. But to learn that somebody had found it and then be told she wasn't getting it back is just un-freaking-believable. I honestly don't know how some people can stand to look at themselves in the mirror. Has their sense of morality, fairness and decency -- their very understanding of right and wrong -- become that twisted that they don't see anything wrong with what they're doing?
Reading about things like this reminds me that these kinds of things happen everywhere and involve all sorts of people. Not just people involved in GPT programs. Sorry about what happened to you, Judith. That's a serious bummer.
Although I've been dealing with those kinds of people for years, the recent collapse of the 12DailyPro ponzi scam and all the associated drama has made me think about it a lot more than usual. I've often wondered if these people are the same in the 'real world' or if the fact that it's all happening online somehow changes the rules for them.
Then yesterday I started seeing links to the story of the woman who lost her camera in Hawaii. Finally today I followed a link from Gizmodo and read the whole story. What a shocker! If you haven't already heard about it, read it here -- Camera Unlost, But Not Quite Found.
It wouldn't have surprised me if Judith had never heard anything about her lost camera. These days, we just can't expect a lost item, any lost item, to be returned. Especially not if it's valuable. But to learn that somebody had found it and then be told she wasn't getting it back is just un-freaking-believable. I honestly don't know how some people can stand to look at themselves in the mirror. Has their sense of morality, fairness and decency -- their very understanding of right and wrong -- become that twisted that they don't see anything wrong with what they're doing?
Reading about things like this reminds me that these kinds of things happen everywhere and involve all sorts of people. Not just people involved in GPT programs. Sorry about what happened to you, Judith. That's a serious bummer.
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