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For the past couple of years there has been a boom of people selling courses on every possible existent subject on this good green Earth. Dropshipping, digital marketing, trading, NFTs, crypto, investing, opening a bussiness, you get the idea. Something from which you could make money, preferably a lot of money and as soon as possible. I've also seen a myriad of masculinity courses after which you would become (allegedly) an alpha male, having both good looks, money and, most importantly, women. Speaking of good looks, apparently, there are courses on looksmaxxing which teach you, among other delusions, to smash your bones so they regenerate stronger and more defined.

The recipe is almost always the same: target a group of vulnerable people and promise them your course will make them rich in a blink of an eye. While I understand that one might be at some point desperate for some money, I don't understand how one could keep falling into these types of scams. And if you're not at the last straw, why even bother in the first place?

No, a course will not teach you how to1 trade, or how to be "masculine", or how to not be socially awkward, or how to open a business. For some, maybe a degree would do, for most of them only getting out there and actually trying and failing things will do.

Please, don't spend your hard-earned money on a course that promises to make you a Übermensch with minimum effort. More often than not, it's AI slop sold to you by some of the dumbest people. Besides, for many of those topics, why would one increase the competition and such cutting his own profits?

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  1. In the majority of cases, anyway, as the "teacher" is usually just a con-artist.

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