34 Things People Think Are Real Scams.

Nathan Johnson Published 05/30/2022 in wtf

Not everyone agrees with these things.

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1.
How the f**k does *HEALTH* insurance not cover dental and vision? what kind of shenanigans is that?
2.
We work the majority of our lives, during our fittest years of health, for the promise of a golden retirement, when we will probably too old and ill to enjoy it properly.
3.
Religion
4.
Insurance!!!! My great grandfather was a doctor, and there were stories of him treating people, often for free. He and his wife helped an entire family with scarlet fever in exchange for a jar of blackberry jam
5.
Trickle down economics.
6.
The entire wedding industry. To be clear, not marriage but weddings specifically. I’m happily married to my wife and we were content to do something special just the two of us, maybe spend a couple of grand and treat ourselves a little bit to something amazing. Cue the families getting involved and before you know it we’re spending closer to twenty grand on one day and feeding a bunch of people I’ve not heard of before or since the wedding.
7.
A lot of us have been convinced that we are selling our labour to companies at the correct price, in reality we're selling it too cheaply.
8.
Diamonds.
9.
Mega Churches on TV and elsewhere.
10.
The easy-to-join, difficult-to-cancel subscription model.
11.
That getting older gives wisdom. I'm older and I'm just a cranky old f**k.
12.
Tipping culture. It’s how businesses scammed the general public into paying additional costs so they could avoid paying their staff a living wage.
13.
the cost of education
14.
That climate change is up to each individual to go green. It was a campaign by BP that pushed the solution as each individual going green instead of the dozen massive corporations that account for the lions share of greenhouse gases. Going green is good, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to oil companies, industrial farming, and cargo ships. Edit: lots of "yet you participate in society, curious" type comments from the usual contrarians. Your hot air is adding to the problem.
15.
Life. Like, why is it so damn expensive? I didn’t even ask to be here!
16.
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17.
That large global companies actually care about you.
18.
Ticketmaster
19.
That the Fashion Industry is anything other than planned obsolescence, designed simply to get people to spend money for no reason.
20.
The rat race. The idea that you are making progress towards a better world. Carrying on with the destruction and degradation of our own environment in the name of progress.
21.
The lobby around requiring **[MOST]** Americans to file their taxes with the IRS; while the IRS already has all the relevant information. Edit: Yes we know there's benefits for you tiny percentage of self-employed individuals and business owners.
22.
The fact that airlines have X amount of seats per flight, but almost always sell X+10 seats and then refund you about 80% of your ticket cost. Do that to the 10 people and suddenly you have about 2 tickets worth of profits seemingly out of nowhere, and everyone still has a flight. Just an unbelievably immoral way to gain a few bucks, but everyone just goes with it since the airplanes aren't exactly a train that comes every 10 minutes.
23.
Hustle culture
24.
GLASSES we need pay too see, biggest scam
25.
Online convenience fees
26.
The prices of anything baby related. Toys, food, clothes, etc. Was in a store on Saturday to get a cot mattress and cover. I cried.
27.
Normal television, paying to watch ads!
28.
Buying a star and naming it. A waste of your cash and time. The only organisation that can name a star is International Astronomical Union.
29.
Mom: tell me the truth and I wont be mad
30.
Claw Machines in arcades
31.
$18 Salad lol
32.
Data caps
33.
*gestures broadly* This pretty much covers it.
34.
Giving parents your money for safekeeping as a kid

1.
How the f**k does *HEALTH* insurance not cover dental and vision? what kind of shenanigans is that?
2.
We work the majority of our lives, during our fittest years of health, for the promise of a golden retirement, when we will probably too old and ill to enjoy it properly.
3.
Religion
4.
Insurance!!!! My great grandfather was a doctor, and there were stories of him treating people, often for free. He and his wife helped an entire family with scarlet fever in exchange for a jar of blackberry jam
5.
Trickle down economics.
6.
The entire wedding industry. To be clear, not marriage but weddings specifically. I’m happily married to my wife and we were content to do something special just the two of us, maybe spend a couple of grand and treat ourselves a little bit to something amazing. Cue the families getting involved and before you know it we’re spending closer to twenty grand on one day and feeding a bunch of people I’ve not heard of before or since the wedding.
7.
A lot of us have been convinced that we are selling our labour to companies at the correct price, in reality we're selling it too cheaply.
8.
Diamonds.
9.
Mega Churches on TV and elsewhere.
10.
The easy-to-join, difficult-to-cancel subscription model.
11.
That getting older gives wisdom. I'm older and I'm just a cranky old f**k.
12.
Tipping culture. It’s how businesses scammed the general public into paying additional costs so they could avoid paying their staff a living wage.
13.
the cost of education
14.
That climate change is up to each individual to go green. It was a campaign by BP that pushed the solution as each individual going green instead of the dozen massive corporations that account for the lions share of greenhouse gases. Going green is good, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to oil companies, industrial farming, and cargo ships. Edit: lots of "yet you participate in society, curious" type comments from the usual contrarians. Your hot air is adding to the problem.
15.
Life. Like, why is it so damn expensive? I didn’t even ask to be here!
16.
Click here to unsubscribe to this email notification
17.
That large global companies actually care about you.
18.
Ticketmaster
19.
That the Fashion Industry is anything other than planned obsolescence, designed simply to get people to spend money for no reason.
20.
The rat race. The idea that you are making progress towards a better world. Carrying on with the destruction and degradation of our own environment in the name of progress.
21.
The lobby around requiring **[MOST]** Americans to file their taxes with the IRS; while the IRS already has all the relevant information. Edit: Yes we know there's benefits for you tiny percentage of self-employed individuals and business owners.
22.
The fact that airlines have X amount of seats per flight, but almost always sell X+10 seats and then refund you about 80% of your ticket cost. Do that to the 10 people and suddenly you have about 2 tickets worth of profits seemingly out of nowhere, and everyone still has a flight. Just an unbelievably immoral way to gain a few bucks, but everyone just goes with it since the airplanes aren't exactly a train that comes every 10 minutes.
23.
Hustle culture
24.
GLASSES we need pay too see, biggest scam
25.
Online convenience fees
26.
The prices of anything baby related. Toys, food, clothes, etc. Was in a store on Saturday to get a cot mattress and cover. I cried.
27.
Normal television, paying to watch ads!
28.
Buying a star and naming it. A waste of your cash and time. The only organisation that can name a star is International Astronomical Union.
29.
Mom: tell me the truth and I wont be mad
30.
Claw Machines in arcades
31.
$18 Salad lol
32.
Data caps
33.
*gestures broadly* This pretty much covers it.
34.
Giving parents your money for safekeeping as a kid