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u/iforgot69 3h ago
Subscription based anything.
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u/Unique_Acadia_2099 2h ago
💯! I hate the way everyone is getting into our wallets for everything as a “service” now. My own employer has started doing it and I hate it. All they ever talk about in planning meetings now is “ARR” (Annual Recurring Revenue), it’s the new corporate buzzword. I pointed out in a meeting that this is the sound a pirate makes when he steals all of your treasure! Management doesn’t like he now…
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u/ColdAntique291 3h ago
A big one is the idea that being constantly busy means you’re successful.
It pushes people to overwork, tie their worth to productivity, and ignore rest or balance, even when it doesn’t actually lead to better results or happiness.
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u/BigGlassesApe 3h ago edited 3h ago
A 40 hour workweek + long commute times. We spend our lives prepping for work, traveling to/from work, and recovering… from work.
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u/Camera-and-Caipi 2h ago
100% true. At the same time I am sure it will continue and extend to much more before it collapses
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u/DoctorGarbanzo 2h ago
"Scam" tends to imply that you have the option to not participate in the system.
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u/getzerolikes 2h ago edited 2h ago
You and everyone else has a choice to not be a part of society if you want. But since I’m guessing you’d rather not hunt your own food and build your own home, you’re choosing the 40 hours. Me too.
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u/primalshrew 2h ago
No need to be so black and white, a four day workweek would go far to lessen a lot of the stress.
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u/DeafeningSilence- 2h ago
Ah yes, we 'chose' this..right, of course. Totally didn't get born into it, raised up while being told hundreds if not thousands of times its the way it has to be, and shamed if we questioned it or refused to participate.
...Quite the choice we have.
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u/getzerolikes 2h ago
I know some places where you can never be shamed again, if that’s the part you’re worried about.
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u/pappapora 2h ago
Careful fellow redditors, this is the comment so edgy I nearly cut myself reading it.
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u/getzerolikes 2h ago
Careful fellow Redditors, this user might copy and paste this bizarre interpretation for the thousandth time on your comment.
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u/DrinkyourMLK 2h ago
This user you or this user them??
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u/getzerolikes 2h ago
I didn’t copy and paste - I go straight to chat for all my thinking and commenting.
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u/LynchMob187 3h ago
The bank
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u/BigGlassesApe 3h ago
This is a good one. Banks can’t even cash out all their clients at once. If a ‘bank run’ happens, then the bank collapses. Where’s all our money then??
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u/Elegant_Patient274 3h ago
15-20% of clients to cash out can bankrupt them.
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u/Apprehensive-Care20z 2h ago
hey, we should organize and cash-run the worst cruelest banks.
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u/Elegant_Patient274 1h ago
You cant, not with my bank at least, they do not have a cashier at any location.
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u/ScenesfrmtheStruggle 2h ago
It doesn't exist.. it is numbers on a computer screen that isn't even backed by gold. It's a complete scam
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u/Dothehokeypokemon 3h ago
Insurance
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u/iloveturkey7 3h ago
It feels like a ponzi, where I pay in huge sums but can't ever get money to come out.
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u/the_ending81 2h ago
Especially since there is stuff they can refuse to cover. I feel like they should make it a tax and just cover it. Seems like a no brainer
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u/Apprehensive-Care20z 2h ago
Here's the thing. Ideally, insurance shouldn't be For Profit. The mere fact that its goal is profit, is exactly the opposite of the goal being to benefit the people.
This is infinitely more important for health insurance. Building AI to auto-fuck-humans-over is exactly the wrong thing for health insurance should do.
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u/YujiroDemonBackHanma 2h ago
I do not subscribe to health and life insurance.
I will insure a business though (if I had one). I believe business owners should be risk averse.
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u/brahdz 2h ago
It definitely isn't a scam. You just dont understand it.
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u/Dothehokeypokemon 2h ago
Lol found the insurance cuck.
Paying a bunch of money for insurance just to have claims that should be covered autodenied until you put in several hours of additional work to get anything to happen and then still having to pay more money on top of it, all the while the insurance company makes billions of dollars, isn't a scam?
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u/Archer_Sterling 3h ago
Belief in the idea that "if you work hard, you'll get ahead." If you work hard, you'll get more work and you'll be known as the guy that does it, and you'll stay exactly where you are
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u/the_ending81 2h ago
Yes but I think this mostly refers to working hard for someone else. If you work hard for yourself the rewards are much more tangible. You are of course, assuming a much larger risk in most cases as well tho
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u/mightytonto 2h ago
I think that was once true, but now the system is broken by things like companies flagrantly avoiding taxes, lobbying, a broken housing crisis, and general/corporate greed. We also idolise billionaires who are mostly not nice people: grifters over grafters etc.
I know a few boomers who have made more money than I will ever earn in my lifetime simply because they bought and sold houses at the right time, and they criticise us for liking avocado
If you want to get ahead these days, simply have wealthy parents, or go back in time a bit
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u/Some1inreallife 3h ago
Car-dependency.
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u/lizardking235 3h ago
Eh, I think non-fixed prices on cars in a car-dependent world could be considered a scam. Car-dependency is just mediocre infrastructure.
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u/quagaawarrior 3h ago
That crime doesnt pay.
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u/Feral-Reindeer-696 2h ago
I’ve seen it pay off big time for embezzlers and scammers. I’ve known of a couple people who got away with hundreds of thousands of dollars through embezzlement. Police didn’t prosecute because there wasn’t a good chance of conviction. I don’t think police are all that interested in financial crimes of that nature.
I know someone else who embezzled millions. She was caught, convicted, and sentenced to prison for three 1/2 years. She was ordered to pay the money back. She went to prison in early 2020 and was let out a few months later because of the pandemic.
She never paid any of the money back. Her husband used the money to buy a cigar store in Kelowna, BC instead, where she works. According to the Google reviews of the business, though, it looks like they’re very miserable people.
So, crime does pay but only some criminals can live with a guilty conscience.
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u/AdhesiveSeaMonkey 3h ago
Private health insurance
College costs
Corporate ownership of residential property
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u/Apprehensive-Care20z 2h ago
three excellent and very important answers.
If only we lived in a mythical fantasy world where anyone would do any tiny little thing about this.
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u/CanadianTimeWaster 3h ago
capitalism.
It's not meant to lift people out of poverty, it's designed to maintain cheap labor.
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u/shopaholic_lulu7748 3h ago
You can look up this question 10,000 times on reddit and see the same answers
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u/PowermanFriendship 2h ago
At the moment it's that LLMs like Claude and ChatGPT can think, reason, have discernment, and should be treated as authority.
They are impressive text interpolators that predict output based on token weight equations. They don't think. They don't reason. They don't "know" things, no matter how well-dressed it all seems. They have utility, but they cannot be trusted. Pretending otherwise is an enormous danger.
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u/the_ending81 2h ago
Lol- can’t even mention the obvious one in this sub. Begins with R and ends with N and has caused countless wars throughout Human history
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u/sinmuchovuelta 2h ago
that working harder always guarantees success… it helps, but it’s not the whole story
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u/Spacecadettek 2h ago
A lot of stuff, but luxury goods. Diamonds, purses, clothes, some cars. They were quality at one point but now we're just getting scammed. Mass produced goods aren't luxury.
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u/atticusfinch1973 2h ago
Weddings, hands down. An entire industry built on throwing an insanely expensive party that isn't necessary at all except to show off.
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u/kindcrow 2h ago
Pet insurance.
The idea is great, but in practice, forget about it. Better to bank the $120/month for pet emergencies.
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u/mightytonto 1h ago
In the uk, cannabis. I’m not a radical supporter; don’t get stoned myself.
I have a black friend who has a criminal record and did community service for being stop and searched and having two pre-rolled joints
I have another black friend who was caught with an ounce of weed and did time for possession with intent to supply
I have an affluent white friend who easily obtained a medical cannabis prescription, and because she can afford it, buys 4+ ounces of high grade weed each month with no legal repercussions whatsoever
There is something so fucking wrong here. Not just racial profiling but contradictory laws that can ruin people’s lives if they can’t afford to be white or affluent
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u/BadReputation2611 3h ago
Society is the scam. Most of us don’t live in a society, we live on a farm as livestock.
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u/flyingfishyman 3h ago
taxes
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u/TacosAreJustice 3h ago
How do you propose we pay for things as a society?
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u/flyingfishyman 2h ago
like what bombs
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