3 money lessons from infamous scam artists | J Mase III

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🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Scam artists know something about money that you don't -- and artist J Mase III is here to shed some light. From Elizabeth Holmes's false medical tech promises to Anna "Delvey" Sorokin's fake trust fund and more, Mase shares examples of infamous scams along with three crucial lessons on how money functions for the wealthy, why it flows in the direction it does and how to start spotting scams in your own life.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	It's Ted Talks Daily, I'm your host, Elise Hume.
0:13.4	Alright, scammers and fraudsters.
0:16.5	We don't trust them, right?
0:17.6	They violate rules and norms, they victimize people, but in today's timely 2022 talk from
0:23.2	Ted Expo Can, poet and educator Jay Mays III turns the conventional idea of scams
0:29.9	on its head.
0:31.4	And he reveals the way our systems come right with what you might call scams.
0:37.1	Scams we agree not to see.
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