Fyre Festival American Greed 2017 Flashcards
Frye festival America Greed
A completely bogus all Starr festival showcasing fabulous models, bands etc.
Put on by Billy McFarlen, who conned and ripped off people for 27 Million dollars.
He sold tickets and luxury accommodations to hundreds of people for another Woodstock type of festival along with luxury accommodations and elite perks.
Party with super models, moguls and celebrities.
Promising opulent accommodations, but actually having refugee tents.
The beaches were abandoned sites without electricity and water.
He created a fake black credit card called the “Magnises” credit card. Then later went to a cashless bracelet system that people paid millions for in prepaid credit.
He starts Frye app.
In reality, he is selling “Dreams”.
People naturally want to believe, ergo they really do believe.
On his party island he hires tons of supermodels, paying then over one million dollars for a favorable tweet.
It works.
The marketing video is a mega hit, because the young people want to believe.
Local contractors on the island work on promising credit that never pays the bills. They pay a thousands of dollars out of their own pockets to their workers.
In the end, thousands of party goers arrive at the island only to behold That their luxury condominiums are refugee tents. No food, no water, no electricity.
Then they are marooned for weeks with no way off the island.
They all arrived on the island by private jet. There are no flights off this island!
Long story short, it was all a big con.
These investors were all suckers that bought into a scam.
The perpetrator only got six years in prison. And was ordered to pay 27 million dollars. Yeah right. This guy is dead broke.
This deck was made to show how people buying into in a dream will get screwed in massive disappointment every time.
This scam happened in 2017. And it only happened because people by nature believe in dream realities.
Simple common sense, they would have known they were being taken. But the allure of the fantasy takes command.
Same thing happens with religion. The good news sounds irresistible, and they continue to believe. They get invested deeper and deeper. They end up believing in total fantasy and will rebuff the truth.
They die believing they are going to Mouseville, when in fact they enter total oblivion.
Happens all the time. They never listen and learn. They are victims of confirmation bias, and cannot escape the gravitational pull of the desire.
