Tipping restaurant servers so the owners of the restaurant don’t have to pay them a living wage.

Megachurches are literal scams. They make a lot of money, saying it's for the church, then they buy 12 mansions.

Paying thousands of dollars for basic dental work

Unpaid internships: They're literally wage theft.

Americans thinking that medical procedures are actually that expensive.

Getting limited days worth of annual leave per year and then being encouraged not to use it.

Your cellphone plans. In my country, I pay €20 for unlimited calls, SMS, and data. I work in phone sales, and whenever I speak to an American, they cannot believe how cheap our plans are compared to what they pay

Somehow, a person who works 65 hours a week at a minimum-wage job just to pay the rent "isn't working hard enough". At the same time, an executive whose "work" boils down to signing a few forms, making a couple of phone calls, collecting investment payouts, and playing golf is considered "a hardworking American".

The idea that you need to work endless hours and never have time off. There are plenty of countries where people work reasonable hours, have five-week summer vacations and the economies don't fall apart. You are not lazy if you don't eat at your desk or while driving.

The push that 'college is for everyone!' Also, you aren’t able to default on your student loans, so banks will give them to anyone. Coincidentally, society started telling people that they should all go to college, no matter their situation, right after passing the bill that made student loans impossible to hide from.

Lawmakers allowed to invest in the stock market.

Millionaires/Billionaires are just like you and me, who just worked harder than everybody else.

'Overdraft protection,' which actually allows the bank to charge you when you use a debit card, instead of just declining the transaction.

"If you're not 15 minutes early, you're late." B*tch, that adds up to 65 hours a year you should have paid me for. That is 8 full days of work.

College Tuition. Being in debt for thousands of dollars as a young adult just starting their life

Commercialized medication.

Trickle-down economics.

Really expensive funerals. People are charged astronomically high prices at a time when grief means they’re not prepared to make sound decisions.

Charging $1 to add cheese.

Wedding business. Everyone nowadays thinks their wedding has to be super grand and such. But paying +2500$ for a dress you can only wear once is super overrated in my opinion.

Politicians talk about the need for healthcare, but create legislation for healthcare insurance. Those are not the same things. In fact, the latter actually is a barrier to the former.

The two party system

College text books, you pay $400 for a book because you have to have the newest version that’s rarely changed much, and the school might offer you $40 and sell it for $150 used

90% of ads you see in social media. Hair fruit gummies do not help your hair.

Diamonds.

Rent To Own products. (Rent-A-Center, Aarons, Conns, etc..) You end up paying triple or quadruple the value of the product for virtually no other benefit than you'd get if you just saved a little money and bought the product out-right.

The pledge of allegiance was actually an advertisement to sell flags.

Tax Filing For the majority of wage earners, the IRS can easily determine how much you owe and tell you, or tell you what you're owed in a refund. It's simple. That they don't do so is only because tax preparation companies lobby lawmakers to keep the system as it is. Tax preparation companies only exist because they are legally allowed, middle men. They are slow, complicated, costly, and the opposite of free market efficiency.

Car dealerships. They're literally just middle-man functions that do nothing more than raise the cost of the 'good' and produce taxation for the government on multiple levels of the transactions involved in purchasing a car through the third party.

Greeting cards cost like $5!