Friday, November 10, 2023

"Man Used $180 Million Check Fraud Scheme To Fund Incredible Dream Garage"

Something messed up in his reward pathways.*

From Jalopnik, November 10:

Is this collection worth spending 97 months in jail?

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 Image: RM Sotheby’s

*We've been on the dopamine beat for a while:
Engineer -- Addicted to Day Trading -- Stole Nearly $750,000 Making False Securities Class-action Claims
Now that's obsessive.
Usually it's the little old lady bookkeeper embezzling from her employer of thirty years to cover her slot habit.
Understandable, in a dopaminergic sort of way.
She's triggering her reward pathways and going a little nuts from the neurotransmitters bathing her brain but she's not trying to rob the casino to keep playing the slot machine.

This guy, on the other hand is a) participating in a slower game, which in theory should trigger the dopamine cascades less frequently and b) he's ripping off Martha Stewart!?
Also at Jalopnik:
Elon Musk's Tantrums Reportedly So Bad After Buying Twitter, Staff Considered Calling For A Wellness Check
If interested see also the next post "The Gamification of Banking"