A con man's way to fight against STUPIDITY aka not knowing how to code
The authors of Skype (JPA - Jaan, Priit, Ahti) gave us another level of communication to talk with each other around the world. JPA learned very early on how to write code and they produced amazing results (Skype!). We all know that we have to learn how to read and calculate at the right age. Today's programming skills are the same as reading and calculating. Sadly most of the humans do not realise it and live in the old ways, still living in 19th and 20th century. We must break through this stagnated way of living. For that, we have to work together.
Recently one of my friends fell victim for a con man's pyramid scheme.
A pyramid scheme is a scam that fools people to think that there is NOT a limited number of people in this world.
Pyramid schemes are worldwide. These con men create apparently something out of nothing: for my friends case, you can travel cheaper, although loads of travel agencies are always competing with the best prices available.
My friend had to pay 200 euros right after joining the scam and after that 50 euros a month. Also my friend had to invite 4 new "victims". So lets start counting the number of people that are going to get involved, if everyone joined in:
1-4
4-16
16-64
64-256
256-1024
1024-4096
4096-16384
16384-65536
65536-262144
262144-1048576
1048576-4194304
4194304-16777216
16777216-67108864
67108864-268435456
268435456-1073741824-4 294 967 296 = X And there are no humans left on this planet. And the "travel agency" should have X*200 Euros on their balance (858 883 459 200 EUR) if everyone joined in. Even the Skype was sold 100 times cheaper!
On the 10th level there would be no humans left in Estonia.
On the 16th level there would be no humans left in the world.
And this is the Pyramid Scheme.
But! Can this scheme also be useful for humanity?