I don’t blame confidence game victims for being victims of a confidence game, even when they should have known better*. …The first time. After that, it really is your own damn fault.
*Anybody can have a bad day, and/or a moment of weakness, especially when somebody gets inside their decision loop and is deliberately putting them off-balance. It could happen to anybody, including me. We’re all bozos on this bus.
It will be their own fault.
But we’re talking about a demographic that thinks they’re Year Zero.