> Now the scams aren't for bread money but are for entertainment money.
The prospect of not being able to pay for food or rent carries a desperation that isn't there when just wanting to buy a video game or hire a Hooker :)
Maybe with hard drug addiction, but that's a different societal problem to tackle.
> it just re-baselines
If fewer people are chronically -desperate- for money, it could leave a smaller workforce pool available to professional scammers for "hiring ghost writers to pump out low quality ebooks" or "paying people to leave 5 star reviews" etc
It may make pity scams less effective though so I'd expect the implementation to change to focus more on creating urgency and less on altruism.