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I think a more intelligent organism will understand perfectly that it is explained as the inevitable result of combining virtually free message-sending with simple economic self-interest, and why there are no perfect solutions to it (at least not yet).

While I like bashing on capitalism as much as the next guy, I don't think it's very relevant here. For the general phenomenon of spam and trolling, I don't think capitalism matters at all, and for the scams on eBay and Amazon, I don't think a system where those are fixed has to be much different from today's.

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