Shiva Brent Sharma at the age 18 got into identity theft. Tom Zeller Jr., of The New York times interviews this twenty year old of his identity theft experience. He has been arrested three times for identity theft and yet still if he is let out on probation or given another chance to prove him self, he would definitely! Commit this crime again. As far as I can see once if you start something you like, it later gets arduous to stop. As we can see that for Shiva Brent Sharma identity theft is an addiction and just like him, anyone would be addicted to any specific thing they have been doing for a long time. If it is for our benefit and it looks good to us but it has consequences then it doesn’t really count as beneficial for us.
Sharma was given a second and third chance but as the video illustrates and he also says it himself that he couldn’t stop doing it. He says he can make easy money by applying his identity theft skills than to work a minimum wage for 8 hours. He feels like he can make more in 3 hours than work 8 hours for minimum wage. As much as that is true, we all do it whether it is for less or more. If the temptations are uncontrollable, we would likely fall into this trap by choosing the wrong path and make money.
“The more you make,” he added, “it’s like, it becomes a different kind of lifestyle.”
There are many people online who are buying things of other people’s credit cards or hacking or are committing some other Internet crime and most of them know it. They know what they are doing. They know it is “wrong” yet still they do it.
Why?
So they can have a better life style? Yes!
For fast money? Yes!
Wants (materialistic things)? Yes!
Too lazy to work eight hours? Yes !
He has been given another chance to go out and try “the right” method of making money and to become a better person. He has a parole hearing in August so hopefully when he is out, he will adopt a different lifestyle, if not for himself then for his daughter and his wife.
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