Millionaire Who Stole Hat from Child at US Open is in His Find Out Stage

After Polish millionaire Piotr Szczerek was caught on camera stealing a signed hat from a child at the US Open, his company was review bombed. He's even been called the most hated man on the Internet.

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After Polish millionaire Piotr Szczerek was caught on camera stealing a signed hat from a child at the US Open, his company was review bombed. He's even been called the most hated man on the Internet.

Szczerek’s company Drogbruk Poland received thousands of negative reviews on Gowork, with a similar company name’s seeming to be collateral damage with an online TrustPilot rating falling to 1.4 stars, full of angry reviews about the character of a man who would steal from a child.

A TrustPilot page leading to their company name is now a 404 error.

And because this is the billionaire’s Internet full of disinformation to benefit those same oligarchs, statements attributed to both the stealing hat man and his wife went viral, although neither has been verified. Piotr Szczerek closed his social media accounts, making confirmation of his Gowork.pl messages shared on Reddit by users even more difficult.

The statements, though, have the ring of Let Them Eat Cake, which is sadly more believable in this era of Trumpism than one would like to imagine. Because they aren’t verified, there’s no reason to repeat them, but both comments matched the behavior of the man who snatched a signed hat handed by the player to a child and put it in his grinning wife’s large tote bag.

They seem exactly like the kind of people who would cite survival of the fittest philosophy to justify morally repugnant behavior against a child and then threaten to sue anyone on the Internet who is criticizing them.

Elites are wild with entitlement to not be criticized these days. Throughout time people have criticized those in power and this country’s First Amendment enshrines the notion that we can criticize our government.

Is Shame Back?

But what makes this interesting from a cultural and political point of view is the seeming return of the power of shame after a decade of Trump-induced shamelessness. It thrived in politics long before Trump, but the Teflon Don made it his rallying call, thereby attracting the worst of the worst (see: his Cabinet).

The reaction of the public was fast and vicious. When asked if Szczerek was the most hated man on the Internet, they piled on to agree that he was. Others gloated about his company losing value, an unverified and probably untrue claim based on another viral social media post.

Again, we live in the age of unverified mess via billionaires for the purpose of controlling the masses, including interrupting and disempowering social justice and pro-democracy movements.

But the point of all of that is Piotr Szczerek’s entitlement was captured on video and he swiftly became the most hated man on the Internet. The public is fed up with entitled elites who think they can take whatever they want.

Another way of saying this is the Internet/Public is tired of men like our president.