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30 Things Which Are In Fact Big Scams, Yet Most People Don’t Realize It, As Shared By Members Of This Online Group
Life, as you perhaps know, is an unfair thing, but not everyone really agrees with this. Many people believe that accepting individual problems and inconveniences, taking them for granted, is a kind of social contract, enshrined in years of human silence.
Indeed, there are a huge number of strange things in our life that we just get used to and take them for granted. However, if you look at the situation from a different angle, certain facts, traditions, things or services will turn out to be simply ridiculous or even absurd. Or, let's call a spade a spade - a total scam.
There is a thread on Reddit whose authors collect opinions about the biggest scam in life that no one wants to admit. To date, the thread has already gained more than 52.1K upvotes and gathered around 36.8K comments. Some of the comments look pretty ridiculous too, but many of them just have a kernel of truth.
Bored Panda created a special curated list of the most popular comments for you, so feel free to scroll to the very end. You will definitely agree with something, object clearly to something, and by the way, we will be glad to read comments of both kinds - after all, truth, as you know, is born in disputes.
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#1
How the f**k does *HEALTH* insurance not cover dental and vision?what kind of shenanigans is that?
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#2
Tipping culture. It’s how businesses scammed the general public into paying additional costs so they could avoid paying their staff a living wage.
#3
Religion
Joran Quinten 2 years ago
Not up to speed on other religions' history, but the way the Catholic church sold tickets to heaven in medieval days, just wow
#4
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.
#5
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.
Foxxy (The Original) 2 years ago (edited)
Exactly and our government wants to increase the retirement age to 70. I don't know anyone at the age of 70+ that is fit and healthy enough to work. Especially in the building industry. We get a few years fun until we start school and then we spend most of our lives as government drones.
#6
Mega Churches on TV and elsewhere.
Mark Alibozek 2 years ago
Always ends with the masses supporting the leaders extravagant lifestyles while they dodge taxes and commit crimes.
#9
The easy-to-join, difficult-to-cancel subscription model.
#10
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.
#12
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.
#14
That getting older gives wisdom. I'm older and I'm just a cranky old f**k.
#15
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
#16
Life.
Like, why is it so damn expensive? I didn’t even ask to be here!
Foxxy (The Original) 2 years ago
It's only getting worse. I was gonna buy a lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes yesterday but was gonna cost me approx $12. Which is insane.
#18
That the Fashion Industry is anything other than planned obsolescence, designed simply to get people to spend money for no reason.
#20
Online convenience fees
#23
Ticketmaster
New Everywhere 2 years ago
I watched John Oliver (gem) talk about this. It's really crazy. Like I've said before everywhere you look it's f*ck people, give me more and more money.
#24
Needing a college degree for most high-level jobs when there is rarely any relevant knowledge gained from the degree relevant to the job.
#25
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.
#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.
Joran Quinten 2 years ago
We bought a lot second hand, and resold after they've grown out of stuff. At the moment were part of a "hand me down chain" 🤣 It saves money and a lot of waste
#27
Normal television, paying to watch ads!
Troux 2 years ago
Advertising in general always seems to sneak its way into ad-free formats. Cable TV was like network TV except no ads....until they added ads. Youtube was finally like TV except no ads...until they added ads. Then you can always block the ads and just watch the video...until their paid promotional segments.
#28
Recycling
In remote communities recyclables collected go to the dump with the rest of the garbage, because it’s not feasible to transport it thousands of km where it could potentially get used.
Mark Alibozek 2 years ago
Also for instance here where I live in Florida the recycling center used to accept glass and then quit. I spoke with an attendant and they said the state quit taking it because there wasn't enough profit. That's not the point!
#29
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.
Justme 2 years ago (edited)
About a month after I bought plane tickets I got a message that they had to change my flights. My new return flight was a day later. I asked if they could change it back to the day prior as planned - these tickets were a good 9 months in advance so I know they had seats. They told me yea, they could change back - and the difference in ticket price is $750 please. I argued for a day and finally heard back sorry that was a mistake, it’s only $375 more. I said no - and they finally agreed to change my flight back to the original day free of (additional) charge.
#30
Hustle culture
What do you think ?
Bob D. Lin Quint 2 years ago
More of these need details. I click on this expecting to be informed on how these dubious plots work and then it's just "Unsubscribe button." No elaboration on wether or not they work, or if there's another hidden functionality in there to screw people over.
Calvin Bure 2 years ago
They're so vague it's driving me crazy, what's the point of this list? Disappointing.
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An Unpopular Opinion. 2 years ago
As one of my old friends once said, "Everything is a scam to some extent"
Calvin Bure 2 years ago
scam noun: A fraudulent or deceptive act or operation. scam verb: 1 : to deceive and defraud (someone). 2 : to obtain (something, such as money) by a scam. Whoever wrote this list didn't spend much time on it, there are so many false statements here it's not even funny.
Bob D. Lin Quint 2 years ago
More of these need details. I click on this expecting to be informed on how these dubious plots work and then it's just "Unsubscribe button." No elaboration on wether or not they work, or if there's another hidden functionality in there to screw people over.
Calvin Bure 2 years ago
They're so vague it's driving me crazy, what's the point of this list? Disappointing.
Load More Replies... An Unpopular Opinion. 2 years ago
As one of my old friends once said, "Everything is a scam to some extent"
Calvin Bure 2 years ago
scam noun: A fraudulent or deceptive act or operation. scam verb: 1 : to deceive and defraud (someone). 2 : to obtain (something, such as money) by a scam. Whoever wrote this list didn't spend much time on it, there are so many false statements here it's not even funny.
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