Societal expectations to move out of your parents’ house when you turn 18. It’s a scam to get you to become more profitable to corporate America. You’re an adult now. You need to buy a car you can’t afford, get a mortgage you don’t want, insure it all to protect the bank, all to go to a job you don’t want, but now need so that you can afford these “nice things.”
But if you stay with your parents, even if you, actually enjoy it, you’re a failure.
Liberalism
The stock market. It’s not investment, it’s gambling. It’s also rigged by the power brokers and insider traders.
Private insurance companies
Banks.
Using YOUR money to make a lot of money from investing in horrible companies.Scientific journals/publishers
As a scientist, yes, it is a horrible scam. The scientists give them rights to the paper for free. The reviewers review for free. Then they charge other people to look at it. And now they came up with open access where the scientists have to pay out of pocket (aka usually with public funds) for the whole process. Meanwhile the review process gets worse and worse, and their profit margin gets bigger and bigger. Last time for a ‘high impact’ journal, I had people in Sri Lanka copy editing my article writing messages to me in broken English. It is all a horrific scam
Spyware. Make it stop.
Paying rent for land. Unfortunately it’s been that way since feudalism and the progressive movements over the last few hundred years haven’t managed to break out of it
And if that scam will never go away, I just want to know who is on the earning end of that scam, and how can I become that person.
how can I become that person
be born a millionaire.
Keep telling that to yourself
If education is not liberatory, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor
Not entirely true, socialist countries have managed to do it or severely limit it.
basically everything,i guess.
Capitalism
Crypto
Is it? I think it got normalized as a scam.
Exactly the scam is so normalized as a scam that people forget it is in fact still a scam.
I mean that people instantly know it’s a scam nowadays.
Yeah but its still everywhere. Its just a scam we’ve accepted.
religion
Subscriptions for everything. Especially hardware.
I already hate my always-online, have to use their shit app robot vacuum that gets worse after each update. I can’t imagine buying a new, overpriced car these days and having it do all the same shit.
Water companies, when there’s only one in the area. I’ve played this boardgame before…
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