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It's literally just a charlatan scam, like homeopathy, tarot card readings, psychics and mediums, etc. The people who perform that are some of the lowest of the low: they admit that people who come to them are at a bad point in their life and very in need of help, and they prey on that because it's an opportunity for quick money. Vulnerable people who don't question your bullshit, that's an easy mark.
(Edit: tarot, not taro)
Lesson definitely learned. There's always people looking for fools to finesse. I wouldn't have minded if it was like 30 a session, but 200+ is disrespectful. I think I intentionally rejected the offer because I also wanted to see how she would react. I figured if she left it alone, then she was probably someone a lot of people had reached out to before. Lo and behold, she tries to call me back within a few minutes to try and finesse me lol.
taro is a root vegetable, you're thinking about tarot cards.
The vegetable is also a scam. Edible plates? Get outta here!
That's funny. I literally searched because I couldn't remember which was the root vegetable and which was the card thing. And somehow I still got it wrong.
lol that's hilarious :P
Not really disagreeing with your overall point, but some of the scam stuff is done by people who sincerely think they're helping, and some of those really do help people feel better.
Again, you're not wrong, but I don't feel like all of them are malicious.
I used to act like I could read palms (not for money, just for fun) and you'd be surprised the number of people that can be cold-read into pretty sincere self epiphanies.
I completely agree, these grifters target the most exploited sectors of the population that are gullible enough to believe in this sort of stuff.
Tarot apparently has actually benefit as a tool for self-introspection, and has a decent community of people who believe in it without wanting any profit from it, but i imagine the industry as a whole is garbage