Fyre Fest organizer is out of prison. He wants to have another go at a crazy event

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If he gets people to invest in a scam festival immediately after being in prison for a scam festival, it shouldn't be illegal. The scammed only have themselves to blame
 

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I forgot this dumbass even existed. Can someone immediately jail the guy? Or at least that maybe we put him on parole, so he can't try to do the same dumb crap again or for the rest of his life?
 
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I really, really, really want this to happen and fail even more spectacularly than last time.
 

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If he gets people to invest in a scam festival immediately after being in prison for a scam festival, it shouldn't be illegal. The scammed only have themselves to blame
I say if the magnificent bastard pulls it off a second time, he deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a seat on the Supreme Court. Dude (accidentally) did more to reveal how shady, toxic, and untrustworthy social media/influencer advertising really is to the American public, than the entire mass media the near-thirty years of social media's existence. Including Jerry Media and their bullshit, whitewashing, cash-in Netflix documentary on the same fiasco they enabled.

At this point he could literally just do another event called "The Fyre Festival Experience" and do literally the same thing, but on purpose calling it a "satirical" or "ironic" experience, and morons would line up around the block and pay more for it than last time.

I mean, I know a lot of well-meaning folks got screwed by this and lost a lot of money they really couldn't afford to lose. But on the other hand, they're still millennial dipshits wasting money they can't afford to spend on bullshit like dipshit music festivals. The Bahamians who got screwed, on the other hand, I do feel genuinely bad for.
 
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Afaik, it's was just a presale of 100 tickets. That's nothing. Any festival selling only that much in two days can pack it in. Dude probably got his grifter buddies to 'buy' them just so he can pretend it sold out and there is actual interested in his scam. Tho I'm sure many morons with too much money influencers are still chomping at the bit to be part of the inevitable clusterfuck for the views.
 

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In Australia, there was a company called One.Tel (You'll tell your friends about One.Tel) that went under under dubious circumstances. Shortly thereafter ads started appearing for Tele.One (Telling everyone about Tele.One), though that was very short lived.
 

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If you are mega-wealthy you're likely a clueless generalist pragmatist MBA-like 'risktaker' or a hardened specialist who only cares about their field and generally will fall for things like the Mercers who are great at analyzing stocks using complicated math, but think studying urine will give them a longer lifespan instead of studying or I don't know CRISPOR. The actual smart people like your professors, scientists, physicists, and so forth are unlikely to fall for this.

They instead fall for lifestyle creep, send their kids to private school, and drain their bank accounts. (e.g. ECON professors who are bad at managing money) But that's a whole other story.
 
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Capital losses are tax-deductible. It's a common trick to engineer capital losses to manipulate income bracket, or while hiding/deferring greater gains elsewhere in order to pay less in taxes for any given fiscal year.
 

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If you are mega-wealthy you're likely a clueless generalist pragmatist MBA-like 'risktaker' or a hardened specialist who only cares about their field and generally will fall for things like the Mercers who are great at analyzing stocks using complicated math, but think studying urine will give them a longer lifespan instead of studying or I don't know CRISPOR. The actual smart people like your professors, scientists, physicists, and so forth are unlikely to fall for this.

They instead fall for lifestyle creep, send their kids to private school, and drain their bank accounts. (e.g. ECON professors who are bad at managing money) But that's a whole other story.
A lot of specialists who dedicate their lives to a single field are dumb as rocks when it comes to anything outside of their field.

I have a friend who is a doctor, I've known him since elementary school. He is a great guy, I love hanging out with him. We're close enough that I go on vacation with him and his wife sometimes. The only thing he knows is medicine. He's forgotten most of what he learned in college and high school that isn't related to the medical field. In basically anything else in life he has about the same level of knowledge as a 13 year old (he kind of understands how things work but not really).

He'll be fine his entire life because doctors will always be needed and will always make good money, but he's absolutely useless outside of his niche.