“Cynics may share the belief of W. C. Fields that ‘You can’t cheat an honest man’ and that victims of swindles have mainly themselves to blame. Mundus vult decipi—ergo decipitatur: the world wants to be deceived, let it therefore be deceived. In the view of psychiatry, I am told, swindler and victim are bound together in a symbiotic, love-hate relationship that both find satisfaction in and depend on.”
Charles P. Kindleberger, Manias, Panics, and Crashes (1989).
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