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This week on Dispatches from Clown World, we talk about the rise of the scam state. An incredible article in The Guardian covered a compound housing 20,000 people in Myanmar. Apparently, scamming is big business ran by international cartels and makes is worth as much as 40% of the economy of the Golden Triangle region! I was aware some camgirls are forced labor, but had no idea the Indian scammer calling you might be an actual slave. We try to get to the bottom of the age of scams and what it means for the future.
Our other topics today are: Polis’s recommendations, JD’s dinner argument, Nancy Mace at the airport, Queen of Coal, Pandemic: Peter Hitchens’ Game of the Year (it is apparently Christopher Hitchens who died some time ago. I apologize to the esteemed Hitchens brothers for not knowing which one of them was still…
