The Federation had once seen a popular scam. Some people would frequently receive a phone call from someone claiming to be so-and-so, saying they had run into a little trouble and needed some help.
Some asked the victims to transfer money into a certain account through telephone banking. Others asked them to mail a check to a certain address. In short, this sort of thing happened many times.
As a result, quite a few people were deceived.
Later, a famous interview program conducted an investigation. When they compiled statistics on the victims who had reported the scams to the police, people discovered that most of them were from the Middle Class, as well as prominent members of society and capitalists.
This led to a very interesting conclusion: rich people were all idiots, and the richer they were, the more idiotic they were! For a long time, people cheerfully believed that all rich people were fools, and as a result developed a kind of... inexplicable sense of superiority over the Middle Class and the capitalist class—something their own class should never have had.
An intellectual superiority that arose naturally. I may be poor, but at least I'm not stupid.
If intelligence really had even a little to do with a person's wealth and social status, these people actually wouldn't rank very highly.
Because the people who had been scammed weren't idiots.
Or rather, these people still possessed enough value to be worth defrauding. The poor people who mocked fools never stopped to consider the question from the other direction—
Why had no one ever tried to scam me like this? Just as they almost never wondered, "Why has no bank ever proactively asked whether I want a loan?" They didn't really care about these things. They didn't notice them, much less