Very tangential rant and not an accusation: Popular misuse of the term pretty rampant these days, it's just like if everybody started saying "Buffer Overflow" for every kind of security risk.
To be specific, "Ponzi Scheme" is getting treated like a pejorative term for any kind of unsustainable profit, but it's a specific situation where an agent is lying to you about how much stuff exists and how much of it is yours.
Very tangential rant and not an accusation: Popular misuse of the term pretty rampant these days, it's just like if everybody started saying "Buffer Overflow" for every kind of security risk.
To be specific, "Ponzi Scheme" is getting treated like a pejorative term for any kind of unsustainable profit, but it's a specific situation where an agent is lying to you about how much stuff exists and how much of it is yours.