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‘Pig Butchering:’ A Text-And-Crypto Scam Costing Victims Millions | Tech News Briefing Podcast | WSJ

Scammers are using friendship, fake cryptocurrencies and text messages to con millions of dollars out of unsuspecting victims. An increasingly common scam known as “Pig Butchering” is targeting professionals.

In other news:
What Hunter-Gatherers Can Teach Us About the Frustrations of Modern Work

Research on early human societies offers lessons about improving our jobs today.

Entire article: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/lessons-from-the-deep-history-of-work?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Without even reading the above article, I would not be at all surprised if the author fails to recognize the fact that any society based on the Paleolithic era of hunter-gatherers will always do unnecessary work, and sees no problem in traveling large areas in-order to do this unnecessary work, i.e. commuting to work.

Only a civilization based on the Neolithic era, the actual era that made civilization possible in the first place, has a problem with unnecessary work in general, and even more-so with commuting to unnecessary jobs to do so!