[Southeast Asia / Cybercrime] - The Extracting Self Traps the Engineer to Feed a Phantom of Profit, Proving the Illusion of a Clean Digital Economy

Event Baseline: A cybercrime operation in Southeast Asia trapped computer engineers into defrauding victims of billions of dollars.

The self that seeks profit without seeing the body turns the engineer into a tool. The belief in invisible money and borderless networks allows the criminal to erase the victim's autonomy. The engineer is both perpetrator and victim, showing the breakdown of clear perpetrator/victim lines. The system of thought reduces humans to functions. This will collapse when the exploited realize they are no different from those they defraud.