It’s a concerning aesthetic assertion, indeed. One could imagine if it said “You can make a lot of money with ponzi schemes! Here’s how” and then proceeded to describe how people can make money by ensuring that nobody can pull off a ponzi scheme, for example, which would be a subversion of aesthetic by describing algorithmic resistance to the scam, by describing human network behavior that, if implemented, reduces the possibility of scam success. This post does not appear to me to do that either.
edit: there are some warnings that should, in principle, warn a scammer that they should always expect to fail, but I suspect would not:
Some event causes a sufficiently large group of depositors to withdraw their money all at the same time. The longer the Ponzi lasts and the higher the interest rate, the easier it is for such a run to cause insolvency.
The Ponzi runs out of money and is forced to halt withdrawals. The fraud is revealed for all to see.
I mean, it’s not just subtext. The title of the post implies the goodness of Ponzi schemes (for those with good timing).
It’s a concerning aesthetic assertion, indeed. One could imagine if it said “You can make a lot of money with ponzi schemes! Here’s how” and then proceeded to describe how people can make money by ensuring that nobody can pull off a ponzi scheme, for example, which would be a subversion of aesthetic by describing algorithmic resistance to the scam, by describing human network behavior that, if implemented, reduces the possibility of scam success. This post does not appear to me to do that either.
edit: there are some warnings that should, in principle, warn a scammer that they should always expect to fail, but I suspect would not: