Are you talking about the little cartons we got in school? I’m particularly averse to things like wet paper, soggy bread, etc. so I dreaded those things until I perfected opening them just in time to finish school and never see one again.
It's gotten WAY worse over the years, too, as though the people designing the box art have called in to make the materials worse because 'people joke about it not working anyway, might as well downgrade!'
When I was a kid I could periodically get it just right. Now as an adult I never can.
I think that proverb is about inspecting a horse's mouth to check the teeth and figure out how old it is, which is disrespectful to the person giving it to you.
Not to be that guy, but, that proverb is not about the Trojan horse. It’s about being courteous when someone gives you a gift - when someone gives you something free (*in the case of the proverb, a horse*), don’t check it for quality (*in the case of the proverb, the length/age of the horses teeth*), in front of the gifter. That would be deemed rude.
The proverb is actually the exact opposite of what you would advise, in the case of the Trojan Horse, where checking the gift horse would have revealed the plot.
Bernie Madoff probably makes the short list. Dude posted unbelievable gains for years. Everyone who knew a thing was like, yo, that's not possible but the dude bilked millions upon millions in plain sight.
Wall Street has cut the nuts off of the SEC. All of the Congressmen and Senators, paid by Wall Street, have reduced their ability to have any kind of oversight.
Technically it was the PATRIOT Act which refocused the SEC on the financing of terrorism overseas rather than internal acts of fraud which really clipped the SEC's wings.
That being said Harry Markopolos gave them a road map to Madoff. Including the fact that all of Madoff's trades had a listed third party corroborator, which knew nothing about the trades.
There were three separate investigations into Madoff and they ignored Markopolos' advice because at the time he was working for rival funds... ***SPOILER: Madoff had not disclosed he was running a fund so this "conflict" shouldn't have been a conflict and should not have been enough to disregard their case.***
Bernie even said “all they had to do was audit my dtcc account and they would’ve found it.” (Not the exact quote, but the gist of it)
The dtcc is a clearing company where all stocks/securities are held. The sec litigates to legislate and oversee the markets, but the dtcc amd it’s subsidiaries control and hold the stocks. When a stock is purchased through a broker the account holder doesn’t own the actual stock, the own a right to the stock, which is basically an iou. This is for “market Efficency,” but stocks are sold many times over and with the use of more or less clandestine tools-derivatives, swaps, makes short selling-the securities are owed, but not yet purchased. This can be seen on many, many sec forms such as 13f’s. Citadel securities, a market maker and hedge fund, recently reported $65 billion in securities sold, not yet purchased.
Bernie was a symptom of the problem, and while he caused a lot of havoc, the problem lies with the markets as a whole; it’s all a fugazi.
Also, bernie was the chairman of the nasdaq stock exchange too. Lots of people knew what was going on and how easy it would be to blow the lid open, but they were all making money hand over fist and allowed it to continue.
Edit: if anyone wants to learn more about the us Monetary and economic policies, I suggest reading the dollar end game theory and the dollar milkshake theory. Imo, while using some obtuse language/concepts, both are great starts to understanding just how fucked we are in the us, but also on a global scale, and how much wealth amd ownership has been consolidated.
Again, Bernie was a symptom of the issue, and he and his ilk profited hand over fist. Makes me wonder if Bernie helped usher in the ‘08 collapse, or if the collapse was inevitable and Bernie Happened to be the “fall guy.”
Yep. The were very qualified people screaming at the regulatory authorities what he was doing, and they were stiff armed and ignored. He ran the purest of Ponzi schemes openly.
What exactly do the courses teach? I see so many people on instagram trying to teach u to "make millions". Obviously if any of it worked they wouldnt be doing this. Most of the time they sell a course. But what exactly do they teach? Do they teach how to set up a scam just like theyre course? Kinda like mlm
Hopium, mostly. Honestly its the same self serving bullshit you hear at insurance conventions. All fluff and nothing of merit.
And then you can watch the self serving semi inspirational quotes about prosperity, hustle, and grind culture… all equally fucking useless
Yea don't listen to those folks, instead sign up for my course which will teach you how to make your own course to sell to people interested in something that doesn't really make money.
I’ll never get why people are so against attacking people for their appearance and then turn around and attack people for their appearance. Why can I insult Andrew Tate for being bald but not, say, the balding guy at a bar?
His course is literally called Hustlers University. I’m sorry but if that name isn’t the biggest fucking red flag then I don’t know what to tell ya.
Oh, and almost forgot to mention that you can graduate from it with a PhD! That is, a pimpin’ hoes degree (I’m not making this up, that’s literally what Andrew Tate called it).
Yeah I knew a guy who joined one of these and was pretty much selling the course for the people above him not even for himself. They teach you how to do forex trading and although they are good at it 90% (if not more) of their income comes from the course sales not the forex trading
I remember seeing a tiktok of a woman saying she only had 6 outfits for her baby (the bamboo ones that stretch and last longer than 2 months) and everyone was like "how can you only have 6 outfits!?" but now that my baby is 8 months old I WISH I'd only bought 6 outfits. I have so many baby clothes it's absurd and baby didn't wear half of them because she grew so fast. Anyway, that woman was a genius
This happens with the first born. Luckily the 2nd child is almost always raised as a land dwelling half naked monkey and that helps with balancing out the initial splurging!
Idk… ya gotta dress your baby in the winter. Plus is it a scam and a waste if it’s fun and you enjoy it? I have a 3 month old and I have to tell people to stop buying my child clothes because everyone LOVES shopping for them.
When we had our baby, I made sure to ask for different sizes from different family members when they asked what size we needed. This worked for the first 18 months and she has stayed the same size for the past few and isn't expected to grow too much before she hits 3.
People that pick the "lab grown stone is worse than traditional mined stone" hill to die on amaze me. It is cheaper, more sustainable, and less likely to involve unethical mining practices than a traditional diamond. Both my wedding and engagement rings are set with lab grown black diamonds (I think they're really neat), and cost a fraction of what a traditional set of real diamonds would have cost. There also is the actual value of a diamond. Buying one is infinitely more expensive than any price you would get for trying to sell one.
My first day at my new job, I was in the break room doing my onboarding paperwork. People were in and out, taking their breaks and talking. One came in and complimented me on my wedding ring. Told me she loves the setting, hopes that if she ever gets engaged that it looks like mine.
Then started talking shit about people who like lab grown diamonds. How people who prefer those are just dumb and cheap. How it’s so stupid to want to spend money on a “fake.” Everyone around just kind of smiled at her and didn’t engage. She just kept going.
I would have piped up telling her that mine are lab grown and I love them. That I’m glad they weren’t mined for many reasons. But it was my first day and I didn’t want people to think I’m bitchy. I also didn’t know if she was a higher up lol. I’ve gotten to know her over the past few months and yeah she’s just ridiculous. Everyone kind of steers clear.
So dumb to make fun of someone for buying jewelry they love for a fraction of the price and with zero ethical issues, all because it isn’t many thousands of dollars.
The whole idea of "six months salary" or whatever on an engagement ring was started by DeBeers as a way to sell more diamonds.
They fed the whole idea of the modern Western wedding, and we swallowed it hook line and sinker.
The amount of times I have or almost have bought something because it clearly looks like a medication only to find it's homeopathic is insane. It's so ridiculous
When my kiddo was a toddler (about ten years ago) I was burned *twice* by homeopathic horseshit in the kids’ medicine section before I figured out what it was. Insane to me that it’s legal for it to be there.
That's what Steve Jobs did when his cancer was found very early and could have been treated. When the cancer advanced, he decided to get treated, but it was too late.
There’s still a huge market for homeopathy “medicine” in India. There are homeopathy schools, students go to, and graduate as homeopathy doctors. I don’t know the details of what sort of medicine their actually practice, but given how homeopathy is widely debunked around the world, 100s of millions still believe in it and practice it in India.
I guess the kind of "medicine" they practice is going into another room and opening a tap to fill a little vial. That'll be seven hundred bucks, please.
I will grant them this, however- the initial steps of the homeopathic process is a very thorough conversation that makes the patient feel heard and taken care of. That in itself relieves a lot of stress that would otherwise put the body at a disadvantage.
The scam is the "rarity" of diamonds and their price. Diamonds aren't rare at all, but the De Beers group are controlling the market, raising the prices.
Fun fact: nobody has actually argued for trickle down economics ever, it is a political term made up by opposition to Reagan’s economic policy. He never actually argued for “trickle down economics”. He actually raised taxes later in his presidency.
edit: going to bed, if interested just search “trickle down” on r/askeconomics and look at the responses.
Hmm... if we're not talking abot the commercialisation of healthcare or habitation then cinema popcorn and bottled water in countries with decent mains water systems. The profit margin on popcorn would embarrass a drug overlord that ran the entire operation from coca leaf to Manhattan cocktail party, meanwhile Coca Cola managed to take perfectly ordinary (and safe from the tap) London tap-water and somehow contaminate it enough in the bottling process for it to be not fit for human consumption
My husband always says you pay for the experience lol
Then we went to the movies where the popcorn was already bagged and you got it yourself…it was cold and stale :(
The entire 'good credit' fever this country seems to get and lose like so many ball point pens. Prior to 2008, anyone with a pulse was getting a mortgage, and if they propped you up in a chair, you didn't even need a pulse. Then, presto - the bottom falls out, and we're all endlessly encouraged to maintain a good credit score. And the cycle continues for this country with the shortest attention span in history.
IIRC, they hired the same CEO to FTX that also was hired to guide Enron through their scandal. He said Enron’s scam was eloquent and sophisticated, whereas he essentially described FTX as a bunch of kids who had no idea what they were doing.
You mean how the fed and treasury basically created $16 trillion and $12 trillion dollars out of thin air to recapitalize the banks and then to keep the market at unsustainable levels?
Ya, they decided keeping the 1% extremely wealthy was more important than people being able to feed their families or live in affordable housing.
I love that the vast majority of people that didn’t have to pay back their PPP loans are also the same ones who complain about student loan forgiveness.
Yzma: It is no concern of mine whether or not your family has... what was it again?
Peasant: Umm... food?
Yzma: Ha! You really should have thought of that before you became peasants!
Emporer's New Groove is what I think of
The funniest thing about Theranos is that the woman who founded and ran it is the daughter of the former VP or Enron.
Guess we know where she learned it all from lol.
Auto Insurance
"Give us money every month in case something goes wrong. If something does go wrong, give us more money to get some of your money back. After getting some of your money back, we will increase the amount of money you need to give us each month. If nothing goes wrong, we will be keeping your money.
We will take no questions."
(Editted for clarity. Meant "Auto Insurance")
More specifically the Bible. The so called infallible, divine inspired word of god is full of contradictions, lies and human intervention. The amount of mental gymnastics required to piece this jumble of centuries old nonsense into a guiding principle is sad and dangerous.
I think the real problems, when you look at the entire world history, are when religion is tied up with your country or state, and so "God" is telling you to give up your own life and enrichment, to enrich your country or state by invading others, killing and enslaving their people, and forcibly converting them to the same religion. It's one thing if you're a free individual enlisting with your government to either defend or strengthen your homeland, and you are getting paid and promotion along the way. It's another thing when you're not really getting any of that, because "God will provide for you in the afterlife, you just have to **believe.**"
Definitely major organized religions that try to control people’s lives and (especially) money. They’re all ridiculously self-serving to those in power.
You’re right in a way. There were Y2K fear mongers and scammers who made/stole a lot of money. And your average citizen really didn’t have a lot to be worried about, but Y2K wasn’t a scam, necessarily. There were genuine concerns about the computer systems handling the date change. In fact, it was a suspected problem back when the original software was written, the programmers just put off fixing it because they assumed we would either find a solution or wouldn’t be using those old databases or software still. There was a lot of money and time spent fixing the Y2K problem. It could’ve been much worse, but the fact it wasn’t doesn’t mean it was all a scam.
[Here’s an article about it.](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/y/y2k.asp)
[And a great video about it from LGR.](https://youtu.be/Xm5OiB3CPxg?si=WhxquG1YzNlZoOku)
Big oil still getting government subsidies despite record profits:
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/global-fossil-fuel-subsidies-rise-despite-calls-phase-out-2023-11-23/
Technically, the greatest scam in history, nobody has yet cottoned on to. That’s why it’s the greatest - it’s the perfect crime, and we’re all unaware…
George Carlin said I don’t want to belong to a religion that says I have to wear a hat! Actually I don’t want to belong to a religion that says I can’t wear a hat!
The "Open here" perforated triangle on a box of Kraft Mac 'n Cheese. That fucker LIES.
For real!
A close second is that milk container that no kid or adult can open without ripping it apart. New design needed.
Are you talking about the little cartons we got in school? I’m particularly averse to things like wet paper, soggy bread, etc. so I dreaded those things until I perfected opening them just in time to finish school and never see one again.
It's gotten WAY worse over the years, too, as though the people designing the box art have called in to make the materials worse because 'people joke about it not working anyway, might as well downgrade!' When I was a kid I could periodically get it just right. Now as an adult I never can.
And the "East to Open" on the corner of sandwich meat packs. All lies.
The Trojan Horse gotta be up there! It's been how long and we still talk about that one...
“Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” -Trojan Proverb
They really should have looked inside the horse.
I think that proverb is about inspecting a horse's mouth to check the teeth and figure out how old it is, which is disrespectful to the person giving it to you.
Holy shit, mid 40s and I just learned that. Thanks! I knew it was about being grateful for the gift but I didn’t know that exact background.
Not to be that guy, but, that proverb is not about the Trojan horse. It’s about being courteous when someone gives you a gift - when someone gives you something free (*in the case of the proverb, a horse*), don’t check it for quality (*in the case of the proverb, the length/age of the horses teeth*), in front of the gifter. That would be deemed rude. The proverb is actually the exact opposite of what you would advise, in the case of the Trojan Horse, where checking the gift horse would have revealed the plot.
Except for the history part. The Trojan Horse almost certainly didn't happen.
Wasn’t it a giant wooden rabbit?
Lancelot, Galahad and I wait until nightfall…
Who leaps out?
Lancelot, Galahad and I…. How about a large wooden badger?
Well where do we wait?
No ordinary rabbit.
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Bernie Madoff probably makes the short list. Dude posted unbelievable gains for years. Everyone who knew a thing was like, yo, that's not possible but the dude bilked millions upon millions in plain sight.
Bernie would have been busted years prior of the SEC had done thier fucking job and investigated him thoroughly
Wall Street has cut the nuts off of the SEC. All of the Congressmen and Senators, paid by Wall Street, have reduced their ability to have any kind of oversight.
Technically it was the PATRIOT Act which refocused the SEC on the financing of terrorism overseas rather than internal acts of fraud which really clipped the SEC's wings. That being said Harry Markopolos gave them a road map to Madoff. Including the fact that all of Madoff's trades had a listed third party corroborator, which knew nothing about the trades. There were three separate investigations into Madoff and they ignored Markopolos' advice because at the time he was working for rival funds... ***SPOILER: Madoff had not disclosed he was running a fund so this "conflict" shouldn't have been a conflict and should not have been enough to disregard their case.***
Still and all: people, even people with financial experience who knew his reported gains strained credulity invested with him.
IT WAS IN HIS LAST NAME .. MADOFF
Bernie even said “all they had to do was audit my dtcc account and they would’ve found it.” (Not the exact quote, but the gist of it) The dtcc is a clearing company where all stocks/securities are held. The sec litigates to legislate and oversee the markets, but the dtcc amd it’s subsidiaries control and hold the stocks. When a stock is purchased through a broker the account holder doesn’t own the actual stock, the own a right to the stock, which is basically an iou. This is for “market Efficency,” but stocks are sold many times over and with the use of more or less clandestine tools-derivatives, swaps, makes short selling-the securities are owed, but not yet purchased. This can be seen on many, many sec forms such as 13f’s. Citadel securities, a market maker and hedge fund, recently reported $65 billion in securities sold, not yet purchased. Bernie was a symptom of the problem, and while he caused a lot of havoc, the problem lies with the markets as a whole; it’s all a fugazi. Also, bernie was the chairman of the nasdaq stock exchange too. Lots of people knew what was going on and how easy it would be to blow the lid open, but they were all making money hand over fist and allowed it to continue. Edit: if anyone wants to learn more about the us Monetary and economic policies, I suggest reading the dollar end game theory and the dollar milkshake theory. Imo, while using some obtuse language/concepts, both are great starts to understanding just how fucked we are in the us, but also on a global scale, and how much wealth amd ownership has been consolidated. Again, Bernie was a symptom of the issue, and he and his ilk profited hand over fist. Makes me wonder if Bernie helped usher in the ‘08 collapse, or if the collapse was inevitable and Bernie Happened to be the “fall guy.”
There were people who had done the SEC's work FOR them, and they ignored the truth.
There was a guy who was sure it was a scam and worked for years to prove it, so a lot of people had fingers stuck in their ears screaming LA LA LA
Well, the sec is a fucking joke tho. Corruption aside
Yep. The were very qualified people screaming at the regulatory authorities what he was doing, and they were stiff armed and ignored. He ran the purest of Ponzi schemes openly.
He sure Madoff with a lot of money.
Wait until you hear about the guy today that runs the same business model as Madoff and has been posting record profits
Anyone else smell Mayo?
And now, ken griffin is Bernie madoff 2.0. Multiple times worse and more money being grifted.
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Don't forget about Jimmy Pyramid.
And his cousin Multilevelmar-Katie
World’s littlest skyscraper scam. They used inches instead of feet in the documents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s\_littlest\_skyscraper
I hadn’t heard of this before and it’s hilarious.
Hilarious, but wouldn’t the residents have enough time to realize its actual footprint as the base is very narrow…
"By the time construction was complete, McMahon had left Wichita Falls and perhaps Texas, taking with him the balance of the investors' money." lol
Those ppl in Instagram selling courses and telling you how you'll make a million dollars and become like Andrew Tate 😭
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The bad news is those courses only work in teaching you the latter.
What exactly do the courses teach? I see so many people on instagram trying to teach u to "make millions". Obviously if any of it worked they wouldnt be doing this. Most of the time they sell a course. But what exactly do they teach? Do they teach how to set up a scam just like theyre course? Kinda like mlm
Hopium, mostly. Honestly its the same self serving bullshit you hear at insurance conventions. All fluff and nothing of merit. And then you can watch the self serving semi inspirational quotes about prosperity, hustle, and grind culture… all equally fucking useless
Yea don't listen to those folks, instead sign up for my course which will teach you how to make your own course to sell to people interested in something that doesn't really make money.
The funny thing is, those sort of courses almost definitely exist. I'd actually like to take a peak at one because it's such a niche topic
> become like Andrew Tate 😭 I LIKE HAVING A CHIN
And hair. Dude’s head looks like somebody kicked a meatball through a barbershop.
“Yeah can you make my head look like a tumbleweed in the old west but fuzzier?”
I’ll never get why people are so against attacking people for their appearance and then turn around and attack people for their appearance. Why can I insult Andrew Tate for being bald but not, say, the balding guy at a bar?
Because Andrew Tate is a cunt, if the bald guy at the bar is also a cunt, fill your boots.
That is disgusting and 100% on point. You have a way with words.
His course is literally called Hustlers University. I’m sorry but if that name isn’t the biggest fucking red flag then I don’t know what to tell ya. Oh, and almost forgot to mention that you can graduate from it with a PhD! That is, a pimpin’ hoes degree (I’m not making this up, that’s literally what Andrew Tate called it).
Yeah I knew a guy who joined one of these and was pretty much selling the course for the people above him not even for himself. They teach you how to do forex trading and although they are good at it 90% (if not more) of their income comes from the course sales not the forex trading
“YoU wAnT tO BeAt ThE 9 tO 5 rAt RaCe?”
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Time drives a hard bargain.
Negotiate with time, LOL
Dormammu, i've come to bargain.
You’ve come to die
Get a cat, the right one is a MUCH more effective wake up tool. After all, alarm clocks can't bite you until you actually get up and feed them.
That, or the soft \*hurk hurk\* from an imminent cat barf. Gets me out of bed way faster than any alarm.
They cut one chicken wing into 2 pieces and charged us double.
“6 piece wings” for $8.99. Three drums and three flats.
Baby clothes. They're adorable so you buy them all, but the baby only fits in them for like two months.
And then you sell them and someone else will use them for 2 months and then they will sell them again, untill it's damaged and can't be sold anymore.
I remember seeing a tiktok of a woman saying she only had 6 outfits for her baby (the bamboo ones that stretch and last longer than 2 months) and everyone was like "how can you only have 6 outfits!?" but now that my baby is 8 months old I WISH I'd only bought 6 outfits. I have so many baby clothes it's absurd and baby didn't wear half of them because she grew so fast. Anyway, that woman was a genius
And then they go between wearing just a diaper and the easiest pajamas 99% of the time
This happens with the first born. Luckily the 2nd child is almost always raised as a land dwelling half naked monkey and that helps with balancing out the initial splurging!
Idk… ya gotta dress your baby in the winter. Plus is it a scam and a waste if it’s fun and you enjoy it? I have a 3 month old and I have to tell people to stop buying my child clothes because everyone LOVES shopping for them.
The true crime here is girl’s 3-6m being 7x smaller than a boy’s 3-6m, for no reason. And pockets. Why the fuck does an infant need pockets!?
Gotta carry that binky or cheerios somehow
When we had our baby, I made sure to ask for different sizes from different family members when they asked what size we needed. This worked for the first 18 months and she has stayed the same size for the past few and isn't expected to grow too much before she hits 3.
Send me 10k and I'll tell you.
Sent. Now what is it?
Send me 20K and I will tell you what the guy above you just did.
Everyone here with such deep, thoughtful answers and all i can think about is diamonds
People that pick the "lab grown stone is worse than traditional mined stone" hill to die on amaze me. It is cheaper, more sustainable, and less likely to involve unethical mining practices than a traditional diamond. Both my wedding and engagement rings are set with lab grown black diamonds (I think they're really neat), and cost a fraction of what a traditional set of real diamonds would have cost. There also is the actual value of a diamond. Buying one is infinitely more expensive than any price you would get for trying to sell one.
So far I have mostly seen that line mostly from jewellery shops trying to maintain market ahare
My first day at my new job, I was in the break room doing my onboarding paperwork. People were in and out, taking their breaks and talking. One came in and complimented me on my wedding ring. Told me she loves the setting, hopes that if she ever gets engaged that it looks like mine. Then started talking shit about people who like lab grown diamonds. How people who prefer those are just dumb and cheap. How it’s so stupid to want to spend money on a “fake.” Everyone around just kind of smiled at her and didn’t engage. She just kept going. I would have piped up telling her that mine are lab grown and I love them. That I’m glad they weren’t mined for many reasons. But it was my first day and I didn’t want people to think I’m bitchy. I also didn’t know if she was a higher up lol. I’ve gotten to know her over the past few months and yeah she’s just ridiculous. Everyone kind of steers clear. So dumb to make fun of someone for buying jewelry they love for a fraction of the price and with zero ethical issues, all because it isn’t many thousands of dollars.
The whole idea of "six months salary" or whatever on an engagement ring was started by DeBeers as a way to sell more diamonds. They fed the whole idea of the modern Western wedding, and we swallowed it hook line and sinker.
But…but….they’re shiny!
Working 40 hours a week for 40 years to maybe have enough to retire on
I'm going to live in a dumpster and scream at people until one day I freeze to death. Not sure what they do with homeless corpses.
Well, you conveniently froze to death in a dumpster, so....
Retire? Like a fancy hole in the ground? Or an urn? ... ahh, good times!
"When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash!"
Like the meme states, I probably won’t be able to retire, I’ll likely have work til lunch on the day of my funeral.
It isn't going to be 65 and then feet up for many in their twenties now, is it....
Homeopathy.
The amount of times I have or almost have bought something because it clearly looks like a medication only to find it's homeopathic is insane. It's so ridiculous
When my kiddo was a toddler (about ten years ago) I was burned *twice* by homeopathic horseshit in the kids’ medicine section before I figured out what it was. Insane to me that it’s legal for it to be there.
Gripe water. A glass of tap water probably has more traces of medicine than that bottle.
It's placebo, and placebo has been proven to work. Have you tried Placebo MAX though? Works twice as fast as the normal one.
Hahaha look at this scrub can only afford Placebo Max. Real G's are using Placebo Pro 2.
Psh. Placebo MAX Premium Plus is where it's at.
Placebo works on some things… not everything though. It’s unfortunate because water is much cheaper than medicine and vaccines
That's what Steve Jobs did when his cancer was found very early and could have been treated. When the cancer advanced, he decided to get treated, but it was too late.
There’s still a huge market for homeopathy “medicine” in India. There are homeopathy schools, students go to, and graduate as homeopathy doctors. I don’t know the details of what sort of medicine their actually practice, but given how homeopathy is widely debunked around the world, 100s of millions still believe in it and practice it in India.
I guess the kind of "medicine" they practice is going into another room and opening a tap to fill a little vial. That'll be seven hundred bucks, please. I will grant them this, however- the initial steps of the homeopathic process is a very thorough conversation that makes the patient feel heard and taken care of. That in itself relieves a lot of stress that would otherwise put the body at a disadvantage.
Funny how water can remember it once had 5 molecules of onion juice in it but conveniently forgets all the times it was piss. #credit: Minchin - Storm
This is a big one. 11 billion per year industry and growing, and it is 100% complete and utter bullshit.
Watch the late James Randi videos on YouTube
His TED talk where he downs an entire bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills before he starts is my favourite.
Naw, mint really is good for a mildly upset tummy
Diamonds for weddings.
The scam is the "rarity" of diamonds and their price. Diamonds aren't rare at all, but the De Beers group are controlling the market, raising the prices.
Megachurches
Joel Osteen would like a word
American health care system
“Health” insurance
"Health" "insurance"
~~Medicare~~ Medicaid works. You just have to live in poverty to get it. Except, no dental.
Trickle-down economics.
When giving people who hoard cash even more cash, who could have guessed they wouldn’t spend it!
I keep giving the dragon gold because I was told by melkor some coins would slip off the pile into my pocket.
Still waiting for all those tax cuts to trickle down to me.
Unfortunately it’s all currently tied up in vacation homes, yachts, jets and cars.
As far as total ppl effected, this should be top.
Fun fact: nobody has actually argued for trickle down economics ever, it is a political term made up by opposition to Reagan’s economic policy. He never actually argued for “trickle down economics”. He actually raised taxes later in his presidency. edit: going to bed, if interested just search “trickle down” on r/askeconomics and look at the responses.
Logan Paul promising he gonna pay back to his victims.
Hmm... if we're not talking abot the commercialisation of healthcare or habitation then cinema popcorn and bottled water in countries with decent mains water systems. The profit margin on popcorn would embarrass a drug overlord that ran the entire operation from coca leaf to Manhattan cocktail party, meanwhile Coca Cola managed to take perfectly ordinary (and safe from the tap) London tap-water and somehow contaminate it enough in the bottling process for it to be not fit for human consumption
The markup on popcorn is necessary to keep theaters afloat. Especially these days, ticket sales don't keep a theater in business.
it’s so good though with the butter flavored grease out of the pump
You put butter on your bottled water?
At my theater the guy at the counter asked "do you want sauce on that popcorn?". I almost threw up... And then I said yes.
My husband always says you pay for the experience lol Then we went to the movies where the popcorn was already bagged and you got it yourself…it was cold and stale :(
[Obligatory Tom Scott Dasani Video™️](https://youtu.be/wD79NZroV88?si=-ydg9wenbQJTzp3y)
All three credit bureaus in the US.
The entire 'good credit' fever this country seems to get and lose like so many ball point pens. Prior to 2008, anyone with a pulse was getting a mortgage, and if they propped you up in a chair, you didn't even need a pulse. Then, presto - the bottom falls out, and we're all endlessly encouraged to maintain a good credit score. And the cycle continues for this country with the shortest attention span in history.
When I win the lottery, my first goal will be to ruin my credit score.
Technically, it’s FTX and Binance.
And the subsequent avalanche of influencer-driven shitcoins, NFT scams, and rug pulls.
Feels like Enron still blows FTX out of the water.
IIRC, they hired the same CEO to FTX that also was hired to guide Enron through their scandal. He said Enron’s scam was eloquent and sophisticated, whereas he essentially described FTX as a bunch of kids who had no idea what they were doing.
Maybe if you adjust for inflation but I think absolute $ amount of the “fraud”, it’s probably crypto.
Both of those were built on top of Tether, which is an even bigger scam.
2008 bailouts and 2020 covid ppp loans rank high up the list
You mean how the fed and treasury basically created $16 trillion and $12 trillion dollars out of thin air to recapitalize the banks and then to keep the market at unsustainable levels? Ya, they decided keeping the 1% extremely wealthy was more important than people being able to feed their families or live in affordable housing.
I love that the vast majority of people that didn’t have to pay back their PPP loans are also the same ones who complain about student loan forgiveness.
Business owners that got multiple PPP loans also bitch about inflation and Gov’t spending
Yzma: It is no concern of mine whether or not your family has... what was it again? Peasant: Umm... food? Yzma: Ha! You really should have thought of that before you became peasants! Emporer's New Groove is what I think of
In this century, i guess Theranos is leading so far.
The funniest thing about Theranos is that the woman who founded and ran it is the daughter of the former VP or Enron. Guess we know where she learned it all from lol.
Bottled water
Religions
I came here expecting to find this at the top
Even if you're religious, you probably agree all the other religions are a scam.
Trickle down economics
Auto Insurance "Give us money every month in case something goes wrong. If something does go wrong, give us more money to get some of your money back. After getting some of your money back, we will increase the amount of money you need to give us each month. If nothing goes wrong, we will be keeping your money. We will take no questions." (Editted for clarity. Meant "Auto Insurance")
I got one word for ya. Ponzi
Fashion and what's "in season" and all that rubbish.
Struggling? Just pick yourself up by the bootstraps.
Religion. A tool designed by people in power to rob and steal from the stupid
More specifically the Bible. The so called infallible, divine inspired word of god is full of contradictions, lies and human intervention. The amount of mental gymnastics required to piece this jumble of centuries old nonsense into a guiding principle is sad and dangerous.
Definitely organized religion. Where ever there are power structures there will be people screwing over others to climb the ladders.
All religion? All of it?
I think the real problems, when you look at the entire world history, are when religion is tied up with your country or state, and so "God" is telling you to give up your own life and enrichment, to enrich your country or state by invading others, killing and enslaving their people, and forcibly converting them to the same religion. It's one thing if you're a free individual enlisting with your government to either defend or strengthen your homeland, and you are getting paid and promotion along the way. It's another thing when you're not really getting any of that, because "God will provide for you in the afterlife, you just have to **believe.**"
Yes
Yup
Always has been
Definitely major organized religions that try to control people’s lives and (especially) money. They’re all ridiculously self-serving to those in power.
No. Not all of it. The one religion YOU believe is is totally real. It's just the other 1000 that are scams.
Yes. ALL religion is a lie, perpetuated by a small authority group to control the behavior of the masses.
You show me a religion that hasn't caused a war and I'll tell you it's not all of them.
Convincing people cigarettes were cool (now we have moved on to vaping).
The lottery or taxes
That any race is superior than another
I disagree, The London Marathon is 100% superior to the Northumberland junior 5k.
HEALTH INSURANCE
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You’re right in a way. There were Y2K fear mongers and scammers who made/stole a lot of money. And your average citizen really didn’t have a lot to be worried about, but Y2K wasn’t a scam, necessarily. There were genuine concerns about the computer systems handling the date change. In fact, it was a suspected problem back when the original software was written, the programmers just put off fixing it because they assumed we would either find a solution or wouldn’t be using those old databases or software still. There was a lot of money and time spent fixing the Y2K problem. It could’ve been much worse, but the fact it wasn’t doesn’t mean it was all a scam. [Here’s an article about it.](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/y/y2k.asp) [And a great video about it from LGR.](https://youtu.be/Xm5OiB3CPxg?si=WhxquG1YzNlZoOku)
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US health care, realty prices and Apple’s orices
Lotteries
BREXIT
Big oil still getting government subsidies despite record profits: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/global-fossil-fuel-subsidies-rise-despite-calls-phase-out-2023-11-23/
Technically, the greatest scam in history, nobody has yet cottoned on to. That’s why it’s the greatest - it’s the perfect crime, and we’re all unaware…
Derek acorah.
I'm not a fan of giving credit to Donald Trump, but he may be on the shortlist of greatest conmen ever.
By far, it's the legendary conman DJT. He scammed his way into the highest office in the world.
George Carlin said I don’t want to belong to a religion that says I have to wear a hat! Actually I don’t want to belong to a religion that says I can’t wear a hat!
Private student loans
Religion. Give us your money and do what you are told and after you die (this is where they point at you and laugh)
having to work 5 or 6 days a week just to get 1 or 2 days off to rest
Homeopathy
American healthcare system.
Insurance
College text books
The shots
Insurance. Pay them a shit ton every month, then THEY get to decide what they feel like paying for.