A very important part oftravelingoutside of where you live and, preferably, your country is the ability to learn just how people live elsewhere. Sometimes it’s just a mind expanding experience, but there are cases where you, unfortunately, discover that what you thought was normal is, at best, just a scam.
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The use of religion in politics.
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Health insurance.
The illusion that it’s the greatest country in the world. No national health service. Short maternity leaves. High gun crime. And people who worship politicians like God’s. And rampant institutionalised racism. And those are just the things off the top of my head.
Tipping instead of actually raising wages for waitersEdit: I was referring to tipping as a necessary law. Yes people tip, but should they be the ones to ultimately blame if you haven’t been tipped and can’t survive the week? No. It’s the firms that you’re working in. They should pay you enough to not have to DEPEND on just tips to make a living.
2 Party Political System.
COLLEGE TEXT BOOKS. You need edition 10 for this class. They change one chapter in the book make it a new edition over price it and f**k the college kids. Always drove me nuts when I was in college.
Scientology.
News as entertainment.
The idea that you need to be productive all the time. It’s ok to just exist.
Insulin prices.
The entire credit score system.
Paying your taxes and then never seeing a return on your investment. That’s OUR money! Fix our roads, give us health care, educate our children PROPERLY, pay our teachers a living wage, RAISE UP people below the poverty line so they can live with dignity. Stop wasting 750 BILLION a year on our military.
Surprised no one mentioned ticketmaster yet.
Bank fees. You are broke so we are going to charge you for being broke.
The entire f*****g prison system.
Mega Churches.
Those payday loan businesses. It’s predatory as s**t and it’s just legal loansharking.
The idea that anyone can become anything — it’s simply not accurate. That’s just something the privileged and the wealthy like to tell the rubes so they don’t protest much when, inevitably, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Healthcare being tied to employment is designed to defang unions.
Healthcare and pharma costs in US vs the rest of the world.
Thinking the republicans or the democrats want the best for the average American.
Trickle Down Economics.
Whatever MLM scheme my SIL was peddling at thanksgiving.
How we have to file our taxes correctly even though the government knows exactly how much we made every year and if we file it wrong we get penalized….
Online charlatans that will share their “secrets” if you buy their course.
- Gestures vaguely at everything.
Bottled water.
Credit system. Pay everything off and your score goes down? Talk about indentured servitude.
Funerals, weddings, and pretty much every other thing we blindly accept have to be insanely expensive without even thinking about it.
That the President runs the country.
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Health care and College loans.
Online convenience fee for paying bills. Not every bill has it but I found it’s usually utilities and it’s BS. Not the biggest scam but something that irritates me.
I think Student Loan servicers. For example, Navient manages Federally guaranteed debt for the US Gov in Student loans, has the IRS as their personal collection agency. They constantly, I mean CONSTANTLY f**k up to the extent they get dragged in front of Congressional Hearings, and their CEO is paid $7.7M annually.
If you work hard, you could be rich like Bill Gate, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos.Even THEY admitted that they were at the right place, the right time.
I scrolled really far and was surprised I didn’t see Rent to Own stores. They sell furniture and electronics type stuff to people with bad credit who can’t really afford it, let them pay a small amount weekly. If people end up paying on time and pay stuff off, they will pay 2 or 3 times more than the item is worth. If they make a payment late the item is repossessed and re sold to someone else and the first person loses all the money they paid.There are used car dealers that do this same business model with cars too. They put GPS trackers in the car that also disable the starter. They collect $1000 down and once a payment is late they disable the car and go tow it, then sell it again and keep the downpayment. I worked at a shop that installed the trackers and these places would sell the same car to different people 5 or 6 times in a year because they kept repoing it.
I have to pick only one? I think our health care system is the largest and most comically villainous of all of them but man, the list is looooong for b******t scams in this wasteland.
“Oxycontin is not addictive”.
Work hard enough, and you’ll reach the American dream. To reach that, you’ll need alot of hard work, yes. But a ridiculous amount of luck as well.
Politicians.
Home ownership.You never actually truly own a home/land. Skip out on property taxes or even HOA fees and your home can be legally taken from you. Arguably better than renting still but it’s never really ‘yours’.
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The stock market! The amount of corruption that is involved with the US stock market is underestimated.
“Trickle Down” Economics isn’t a theory of economics, but a mechanism present in all economics. It’s meaning has been tied to one man’s usage while holding office and misrepresented ever since.At a macro level of economics, even Keynesian economics applies this to to revenue multiplier for the government’s tax income. And is recognized in wage distribution.
The 40 hour work week.
I’m in Vegas right now for a conference. 90% of this city is a scam. Only worth while thing is the restaurants.
Shakology.
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