{"id":5231,"date":"2026-04-14T08:39:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/cranialsoup\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:56:41","slug":"you-cant-reform-a-pyramid-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/cranialsoup\/2026\/04\/14\/you-cant-reform-a-pyramid-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"You can’t reform a pyramid scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Especially one that\u00a0unfairly places people above\/below each other, at birth, and attributes a value to their existence, based on their current position on the pyramid, their exploitability, and how much wealth and\/or power they can be forced to provide to the elites at the top.<\/p>\n

Power should NEVER be given to sociopaths that are good at exploiting others for their own personal gain.<\/p>\n

Instead, it should be given to the best and brightest in a society, people good at solving problems and getting things done, for the benefit of ALL, to ensure that EVERYONE has everything they need, not merely to survive, but to also to THRIVE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Especially one that\u00a0unfairly places people above\/below each other, at birth, and attributes a value to their existence, based on their…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-this-is-broken","category-uncategorized","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/cranialsoup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/cranialsoup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/cranialsoup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/cranialsoup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/cranialsoup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/cranialsoup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5238,"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/cranialsoup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions\/5238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/cranialsoup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/cranialsoup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/cranialsoup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarytaskbar.com\/cranialsoup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}