That is actually an awesome and "ethical" use case for this project. Thank you for sharing who this journalist is and sharing ideas on ethical application.
It's very consciously engineered to work like that. These books and courses are crass but effective marketing funnels, designed to select those who will continue to pay increasingly improbable sums for access to increasingly "exclusive" information.
Same with other self-help authors, isn‘t it? Take Brian Tracy (not saying he is a charlatan!). Superficially repeating same ideas over and over again, publishing half a dozen books a year with the same ideas.
Romania has moved over from communism to a crime centric country - the culture and everything is dominated by it, so the only “billionaires” are dodgy people with a shady past. Went from communism to kleptocracy, rather than democracy.
I know, i am from the country. Came back after years of living abroad only to find a big fat deception, a culture of crime and corruption, cheap nationalism, conspiracy theories in every aspect of life, pseudo sciences, incompetence at all levels and lame “pride”. Naturally there is a handful of great people but too few to make a difference. I for one cant wait to get out of here. Oh and that german president apparently has a criminal history of buying properties illegally (he apparently lost a case in this regard), but is better than the other candidate.
He is a black swan. Britain has only one Richard Branson and that is Richard Branson.