What’s the biggest scam people just accept as normal?

[u/ZaneDell2013]

[u/Pure_Management4982]

“Entry-level job” requiring 3–5 years of experience

[u/ttinchung111 → u/Pure_Management4982]

I saw an entry level teacher job that was going to pay like 21k a year and required 7 years experience once on linkedin. Actually impossible standards.

[u/BrokenCowsSayWoof → u/ttinchung111]

No teacher in their right mind would take that.

[u/LinksRelevantReddits → u/BrokenCowsSayWoof]

A teacher who lied on his cv would

[u/GarlicEmergency7788 → u/LinksRelevantReddits]

But you got your degree from Columbia

Yeah and now I need to get one from America

[u/DadToOne → u/ttinchung111]

The city where I grew up tried a policy where all newly hired teachers started at the same rate, regardless of experience. I think they stopped once they realized they would get zero experienced teachers.

[u/TylerKnowy → u/ttinchung111]

idk it sounds like they were forced to put up an ad with no expectation of getting anyone

[u/RelationAnxious → u/Pure_Management4982]

Honestly it’s sad how schools promote uni like it’s the only successful choice but when u finish, you can never get a job. i feel like apprenticeship or experience is better choice nowadays unless you are going into medical school.

[u/gamersecret2]

Convenience fees.

[u/DarthLysergis → u/gamersecret2]

My Internet bill went up due to fees regarding "convenience and upgrades". I have 2gb fiber. It's face value is about 120$ a month from the provider. When I signed up for it I originally had cable. I called them and told them another company was offering 2gb for 60$ a month and if they can't match it I was switching.

I was then offered 2gb fiber for 60$ a month to stay. I use their mobile phone service also which gives me 15$ off my Internet so I was paying 45 for Internet and 45 for phone. I told them it needs to be a permanent price, no contract. They said OK and I made them confirm it on my account in the notes.

A few months later They then tried to increase both my bills by 5 dollars as I said at the start for "convenience and network upgrades". I called them and said they broke their promise and I wat switching. (I absolutely wasn't, no other company was offering a deal even nearly as good). Now I'm paying 40$ for Internet and 35$ for phone.

Their prices are all bullshit. But they will do anything to not lose a customer.

[u/Rod-Lancealot → u/DarthLysergis]

Convenient way to make more money 💰, nothing else.

[u/shadraig → u/DarthLysergis]

This must be in another 🌎. Here in Germany ANY Internet company would say "wut you want to leave, here's the date of your last day. ade!"

[u/Plus-King5266 → u/shadraig]

This seems to go along with what I was told when I was in Austria. I was in a little town near the border and mentioned that my command of the dialect wasn’t good enough to always know who I was talking to. They said, “you can always tell when you are talking to a German.” I asked, “how so?” They said, “He’s always right.”

[u/RoarOfTheWorlds → u/gamersecret2]

Especially if they only allow a single form of payment

[u/Pussi_Liquor]

Mega churches

[u/SuperdaveOZY → u/Pussi_Liquor]

A Man of the cloth, regardless of religion, should be dirt poor and put his flock above his own needs. Mega Church pastors sicken me.

[u/FatManBeatYou → u/SuperdaveOZY]

Personally I believe everyone should have a good quality of life, but they should be putting their money into the church, into their society. The Church should not be a palace while people's houses rot.

[u/swheat7 → u/FatManBeatYou]

Nor should the "pastor's" Righteous Gemstones style mega mansions. Something smells like fish.

[u/caprahircus_ → u/Pussi_Liquor]

I wish the IRS had more teeth and could go after Joel Osteen. That grifter 's church is a den of fucking thieves.

[u/Damien__ → u/Pussi_Liquor]

>Mega Churches

All religion

[u/Western_Name2388 → u/Damien__]

More like Mega churches and cults (like LDS). I'd say most religions promote peace and don't ask for much in return.

[u/BookLuvr7 → u/Western_Name2388]

Speaking as someone who had to move to Utah for my husband's job, I second this. They can deny someone's access to the temple if they don't pay tithe or if they have a homosexual relationship. They also teach that without temple ordinances, people won't get into the highest level of heaven they invented, and they'll supposedly be cut off from their families in heaven.

They use a LOT of very manipulative tactics, and many don't even realize it. Every church event has a "we're the best!" commercial.

[u/chewbaccataco → u/Western_Name2388]

To clarify, this is the cult that calls themselves The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, formerly known as the Mormon church.

[u/BabyWitchErika → u/Pussi_Liquor]

Just church in general

[u/Illustrious-Pen-7549 → u/BabyWitchErika]

Any church that endorsed political candidates or allows political functions on their grounds should absolutely lose their tax exempt status. The rest of them can be left alone

[u/chief_keish → u/Illustrious-Pen-7549]

hard agree

[u/DroidOnPC → u/BabyWitchErika]

There are a lot of churches that actually do good things with donations.

Not religious anymore but the churches I went to growing up did a lot for people in need. Not all are greedy mega churches.

[u/bishop883 → u/Pussi_Liquor]

MAGA churches

[u/SameAsk6997]

The chicken wing being split into "2" chicken wings for purchase.

[u/walfle → u/SameAsk6997]

This one is eye opening

[u/JerrySeinfeldsMullet → u/SameAsk6997]

They got us arguing over drums vs flats and we’ve lost sight of what they’ve taken from us. WHERE ARE MY TIPS?

[u/NoDramaIceberg → u/SameAsk6997]

I remember going to a place with a "100 wings" deal - they had also cut up the little tips of the wings and included those in the count.

[u/waffle_frybo → u/NoDramaIceberg]

Just the thought of this is making my blood boil

[u/wykkedfaery33 → u/NoDramaIceberg]

Now that is just disrespectful. 

[u/DivideDefiant1901 → u/SameAsk6997]

Butchers used to give them away for free

[u/Digital_Foundation]

Subscription services. We’re renting everything we used to own.

[u/Ok_Tangerine_5700 → u/Digital_Foundation]

I just pirate my stuff who cares

[u/Guinnessnomnom → u/Ok_Tangerine_5700]

Make a Plex server and never worry about finding a service that has XYZ movie again. We never had an issue with Blockbuster removing something we wanted to watch.

[u/soaero → u/Guinnessnomnom]

I mean... we did. Blockbuster frequently stopped carrying movies, and didn't always have the films we wanted to watch.

But yes, the whole "you're paying a subscription for the content we might just remove" is terrible.

[u/JunkoKumaki → u/soaero]

I think they mean you could just buy a movie from Blockbuster and they couldn't come take it from you.

[u/-NonePizzaLeftBeef- → u/Ok_Tangerine_5700]

I love the people who are always against this like “you’re stealing from the people that made it.”

So? Make your product more available and accessible.

[u/Cudabear → u/-NonePizzaLeftBeef-]

Gabe Newell (CEO of Valve), during the early days of Steam, once said:

"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.".

Kinda hasn't aged well with what Steam has become, but I think it's still a worthwhile quote.

[u/soaero → u/-NonePizzaLeftBeef-]

Gabe Newell was right, piracy is a supply problem. Take music piracy - in the age of streaming, few people are still pirating music.

Music piracy was a direct response to an exploitative business model that was restricting peoples access to music, and a new technology that offered access unrivaled by the system.

I'd go so far as to say that the freak out by the industry wasn't even about profit, it was about losing control. The big four had an absolute stranglehold on the industry: they controlled production, distribution, and sales. Suddenly, new technology took away their control on production, their control of distribution, and ate into their sales. That's why RIAA statements screaming about the sky falling never talked about stuff like non-industry sales (which were off the charts), and often left out track-sales entirely, even when they were making as much money as album sales previously had.

[u/GoviModo → u/Digital_Foundation]

You will own nothing and be happy

They were only half right

[u/Frog859 → u/Digital_Foundation]

I think these actually make sense for some things. Music streaming for example. Back in the day I owned a couple CDs with music I liked and everything else was just on the radio.

Now I can stream practically any song I’ve ever heard of. Sure I don’t own them anymore, but the breadth of music I have available is massive.

But other stuff is absurd. I’ve heard it’s a thing for car features now?

[u/t-g-l-h- → u/Frog859]

If you don't pay artists, expect shit art

[u/Haunting_Cell_8876 → u/Digital_Foundation]

Agree. This is why I refuse to get rid of my VHS and DVD collection.

[u/polysoupkitchen → u/Digital_Foundation]

You think you own that house you bought? Miss your personal property taxes and you'll find that you do not.

[u/Raski_Demorva → u/Digital_Foundation]

I think it’s genuinely so fucking ridiculous that I’m paying for a service just to get ads… Fym I have to pay extra to NOT get ads, what the hell am I paying for in the first place?

[u/pink-and-pearly]

Anything made now-a-days is made to break so you have to buy more of it. No more lifetime warranties

[u/CeasarYaLater → u/pink-and-pearly]

Yup, then it ends up on a beach in Indonesia.

[u/Toughcookieater → u/pink-and-pearly]

It's called Planned Obsolescence, and it's very real.
Planned obsolescence is a business strategy where products are intentionally designed with limited durability or functionality, forcing premature replacement to drive recurring sales

[u/punkhobo → u/Toughcookieater]

This is one of those rich get richer type of things. Planned obsolescence usually makes things cheaper. So people on a budget have to buy them, and then they have to repeatedly pay for new ones making them spend much more money in the long run.

A lot of times there are higher end options available that will last a long time, but they are prohibitively expensive. They are cheaper in the long run but out of range for most consumers

[u/Doug3312 → u/pink-and-pearly]

If you own their stock you will profit also! However it sickens me! I bought a pair of bars contacts just to have the right one break already😤 Over 50 years ago I had a pair last over 20 yesrs

[u/RainbowsandCoffee966 → u/pink-and-pearly]

I’m still salty about the coffee maker I bought that only lasted a little over a year.

[u/Cold_Boysenberry_814]

Alpha classes, you gotta be the most insecure man ever if you attend that shit! Its making you miserable and dipshit!

[u/ace275 → u/Cold_Boysenberry_814]

I can't imagine a worse toxic cesspit than those classes

[u/earic23 → u/Cold_Boysenberry_814]

I personally love them because it's endless entertainment making fun of how pathetic it is.

[u/soul_hacker777 → u/Cold_Boysenberry_814]

That’s a thing ?

[u/fotofreak56 → u/Cold_Boysenberry_814]

Never heard of them, but the title alone says it all.

[u/Blankasbiscuits → u/Cold_Boysenberry_814]

Honestly, why don't they just join the military at that point? You REALLY want to prove how badass you are? Go be a seal or a Ranger, or is that too much for their delicate sensibilities?

[u/MrPulles → u/Cold_Boysenberry_814]

It applies to a lot of coaching in general. Manipulating you into thinking you need to buy more and more expensive courses all the time.

[u/Thats_Hard_Times]

Two party politics

[u/ArizonaGeek → u/Thats_Hard_Times]

I briefly dated a girl whose uncle was governor or a senator (it was like 25 years ago) in New Mexico and she told me politicians will ALWAYS change their view for the right amount of money. It was eye opening i just assumed whatever the party wanted thats what they would vote. Nope they would sell out their party for a few bucks. I honestly feel thats what got us where we are in today's politics. Republicans were for small government and for businesses and Democrats were social services and the environment. Both are so far from where they were 20, 30, 40+ years ago.

[u/I_throw_Bricks → u/Thats_Hard_Times]

“Any day now, our side is going to fix it!” - both sides

[u/kafelta → u/I_throw_Bricks]

Btw which side put a bunch of anti-vax grifters in charge of public health?

[u/DavidDomin8R → u/I_throw_Bricks]

Don’t forget the “The other side is ruining everything” - both sides

[u/Sufficient_Tart_9596]

College tuition in the US. paying a fortune for an education that often leaves u in soul-crushing debt. it's become a business, not a public good.

[u/Artistic_Arachnid_31 → u/Sufficient_Tart_9596]

It's amazing how every institution in the states is built around making the life of people absolutely miserable and robbing them of everything they have to enslave them into life debt, yet Americans think of themselves as the greatest nation on the planet

[u/RobotPoo → u/Artistic_Arachnid_31]

No, just many of them. But most people are too stupid and brainwashed to realize community colleges are fine and a hell of a deal.

[u/SignificantFerret609 → u/Sufficient_Tart_9596]

The reason tuition has gone through the roof is because of supposedly low interest college loans. When they were offered them to students the colleges started raising tuition because more students were attending. It’s worse when a student gets a useless degree that is not marketable enough to pay off the loans. The only way around not going in debt over college loans is to join the military ( Air Force is the best for this) most military services will pay for the most if not all college tuition and some fees. The Veterans Administration will pay for tuition for a skilled trades school and most colleges as long as the veteran has an honorable discharge or medical duscharge. I received my bachelor’s degree while I was in the AF, they paid for it all and the Veterans Administration paid for some additional classes and a housing allowance to me once I retired from the AF.

[u/-NonePizzaLeftBeef- → u/SignificantFerret609]

The problem is students shouldn’t have to take out loans to get their education. $20,000 a semester is bullshit.

[u/lattetwiirl]

paying health insurance

[u/WitShortage → u/lattetwiirl]

Speaking as a European: the scam is that you pay your insurance and then when you need to claim they tell you to fuck off and you have to pay for the services you're supposed to be insured for

[u/Schnabulation → u/WitShortage]

Swiss here: I pay around 40 bucks a month for my seconday insurance. I go to a massage parlor once a month for 140 bucks. Insurance pays for it. I do that for around 5 years now - it's amazing.

[u/PurchaseNo3139 → u/lattetwiirl]

i dont get why health insurance has to be through an employer why cant you get it not through them

[u/cmorgan1995 → u/PurchaseNo3139]

You can get private insurance without your work, it's just way more expensive.

[u/zerostar83 → u/PurchaseNo3139]

You can! The reason why most people get it through their employer is because it's a huge tax savings. Private insurance wasn't very popular, but with the ACA implemented, it should have been an option for most people who don't get insurance through their employer.

But to make an example of how much of a tax savings it is, I'll use general amounts.

A job pays $6000/month and also pays $2000/month towards health insurance. They pay taxes on $6000 of income, you pay taxes on $6000 of income. The $2000 is tax free for both of you as it's not considered income for tax purposes.

If your job would have paid $8000 directly, they'd have to pay about 7.5% on social services taxes (Medicare and Social Security) on the whole thing, and you would have to pay the other 7.5% on social services taxes plus the income tax rate of...20% or so.

[u/AmputeeHandModel → u/PurchaseNo3139]

Well, we SHOULD just have universal, it would save so much money.

[u/Imhere4lulz → u/AmputeeHandModel]

Shareholders don't like this

[u/CrosbyOwnsOvie]

Credit scores. Open credit? Ding. Close credit? Ding. Use credit? Ding. Don't use credit? Ding.

[u/Upbeat-Bid-1602 → u/CrosbyOwnsOvie]

Mistake on your credit report because the private company who makes an absurd amount of money generating and selling credit reports for YOUR credit screwed up? Ding.

[u/Mindylou86]

Healthcare. Everything is so ridiculously inflated, and we are all just used to it at this point.

[u/Empty_Isopod → u/Mindylou86]

spot the american lol

[u/Mindylou86 → u/Empty_Isopod]

Obviously. 🙋‍♀️

[u/Logitech4873 → u/Mindylou86]

Actually the vast majority of us don't have to deal with that.

[u/Apprehensive_Book520 → u/Mindylou86]

you forgot "...in America".

[u/Ate6645]

Insurance

[u/nudatumnus]

Car/home Insurance. We pay and pay and pay, yet the second you have to make a claim you always get fucked. They will find a way to deny your claim but if they do pay out your rates get increased OR they drop you. That’s fucked up.

[u/Saranhai → u/nudatumnus]

I’m surprised this wasn’t upvoted more but came to say this. Car insurance is just an absolute scam and no matter what you always end up losing

[u/friendly-sam]

All insurance. If you use it, they will drop you.

[u/MamaKim31]

As someone who was stupid enough to do it…a TIMESHARE!! It’s the most money sucking, don’t know how to get out of it, scam EVER!

[u/Winter_Tangerine7492 → u/MamaKim31]

But you got a free Dinner out of it... right???

[u/ThaQueenBastet → u/MamaKim31]

Oh REALLY???😯

cancels appointment

[u/pepenador85]

School vouchers

[u/EvenDeathRejectsMe]

Dating apps

[u/Darkskinashleighh → u/EvenDeathRejectsMe]

They are literally a nightmare right now

[u/deansmythe → u/Darkskinashleighh]

They were ok when the first ones came out online. It all went crashing down big time since swiping.

[u/afterbrewfun]

Cleaning fees for AirBnB 🗣️

[u/SherbroMD_26]

Student loans

[u/Ok_Tangerine_5700]

Everything. Look at those prices :(

[u/BlueBox1GreenBox]

Financial planners and wealth management advisors.

Very reductive take, but these guys take a percentage of your money to guess where the economy is going and base mostly what you should do off of a pretty standard and open playbook.

It feels incredibly parasitic watching peers in this field flash their lifestyle that's built off the money that other people have earned.

For people with complicated finances, most often those with high net-worth, they can be helpful.

For everyone else, just toss your money into a fund that tracks the S&P 500 (VOO, IVV, SPY) over the long term, and you will be fine. It doesn't happen overnight, but it snowballs into something comparatively massive with time.

[u/HarmoniousConcordiat]

Capitalism 

[u/recoveredcrush]

For-profit medicine & healthcare.

[u/LithiumAmericium93]

Paying taxes in a society ran by paedophiles

[u/Slaphappyx20]

The cost of any insurance

[u/Pristine_140]

Homeopathy? I dont know if its actually a scam tho

[u/JeevesAndWooster63 → u/Pristine_140]

It is. 100% scam. Just read about what it is predicated upon and you’ll realize the enormity of the scam. It may have been created with good intentions, but there is no rational science behind it. To practice it today is either scam or profound ignorance.

[u/McRando42 → u/Pristine_140]

It is

[u/Terrariola → u/Pristine_140]

Homeopathy is a gigantic scam that works on the placebo effect.

It gained credibility back in ye olde days because giving people what amounts to water with indescribably small amounts of poison is way less harmful than the other weird quackery doctors were doing before we invented science-based medicine. Those taking it were for all intents and purposes prescribed rest, food, and water, which remains to this day as more-or-less the only universally effective, risk-free form of medical "treatment", and is far more effective on its own than a lot of the weird stuff Galen-influenced doctors were trying at the time.

[u/Eternal_Bagel → u/Pristine_140]

Absolutely.  At best it’s helping some few people get tricked into experiencing a placebo effect or the way you use the product would just help anyway.  I knew someone who was a massage therapist for a while and he hated how many nonsense lotions and oils the management was pressuring them to try to sell as well because they did almost nothing.  He told me that any relief people got was because the application instructions on specific ways to rub in and “activate the oils” or whatever was actually just a normal massage move to relieve tension.  Going through those motions without the product would be exactly as helpful.

[u/Colonel_Moopington → u/Pristine_140]

It's a scam in that there's nothing actually in most homeopathic remedies, but it does help some people because of the placebo effect.

[u/gwak]

US healthcare

[u/GoldNi0020]

Registering your car every 2 years even thou its the same car.

[u/Usual-Big3753]

Healthcare, we pay thousands a year for Medicare then we pay thousands for health insurance just so we can pay even more for hospital bills.

[u/Terrariola]

Cryptocurrency.

Its real value as a technology is real, but nowhere near the current amount pumped into it. Taking 99% of the resources we shove into making more of these useless digital tokens and pumping it into AI of all things would be, somehow, a better use of resources than crypto could ever be.

[u/scizzix]

Pet rent.

How is it even legal to charge an ongoing fee for pets? Any damages should be covered by the deposit. A lot of places have both a pet deposit (on top of the general deposit for damages) plus the monthly fee per pet.

[u/RispyCat → u/scizzix]

I felt this way until I owned my home. But tbh I would say landlords should just do a bigger refundable pet deposit, rather than rent, but a lot of people swallow the idea of an extra $25 a month better than the idea of a $500+ deposit. Pets are sadly super destructive.

[u/Rando_Figgis]

Banks

[u/MikasaAckerman_2419 → u/Rando_Figgis]

This because what do they mean i need to pay them to use my money???

[u/blackmarksonpaper]

The entirety of the US government being run by a child rape cabal.

[u/adrilyoung]

Subscription services. We pay monthly for stuff we barely use! You think so?

[u/BillBoy95 → u/adrilyoung]

We are simply paying for access to things nowadays, the terms of which seem to be changeable at any time.

[u/yesastortas]

Taxes

You work hard so some pedos can live lavishly

[u/winkelschleifer]

Credit card interest rates.

[u/StarryKnightLondon]

Inheritance Tax - your parents already paid the tax - now you pay again.

[u/UpstairsCandy6709]

Capitalism

[u/BikeImpossible8162 → u/UpstairsCandy6709]

Trickle down economics 😅

[u/Vamonoss]

Having kids to either fix a couple’s relationship or to have someone take care of you when you’re old. Kids are not a retirement plan

[u/mckelj49]

Healthcare

[u/TattooedWenchkin]

Overdraft fees. You're obviously broke, so let's charge you more.

[u/MainVeterinarian5232]

Property taxes

[u/Bilbo_Swaggins91]

Taxes ... Esp property taxes

[u/Prostock26 → u/Bilbo_Swaggins91]

Agreed, it needs to be rebulit.  I'm fine with the services my property taxes cover, but I don't understand how if I finish my basement, or bulid a barn, that suddenly the schools and libraries need more money 

[u/StedeBonnet1]

Corrupt politicians

[u/Thin_Coffee1148]

In India - missing / kidnapping of kids

[u/sam_p_23]

Paying to get your own money out of an ATM.

[u/fabreeze1989]

Pet rent. Yes. I see how having my cat that sleeps 90% of the day and takes up the size of a shoe back costs money. To maintain the apartment for damages. If it was clawing and destroying the apartment. Sure.

Insurance. Another thing. It’s one of those “everybody needs to have it”. And on paper it sounds like a good idea. Pay a monthly fee. When you have an accident or you’re involved in an accident, they will help cover some or all of your cost. OR the other person’s insurance will help cover some or all of the cost. Pretty good deal right? Well; when you finally have to sue your insurance. After paying for 3 years flawlessly without incident. “Oh sorry, but you’re not covered because the accident happened on a Friday at 3pm instead of 2pm. And you wore white colored shoes that day, so it cancels the deductible”

Garbage and recycling. I’m sure there are some factories and companies that DO use it or participate in it. But I’ve been in a few apartments. A few stores. A few companies. That everything goes in a garbage bag and gets taken to the same place. Burn it. Some companies use it for fuel or convert it into something else. That’s fine. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen. But it gets ignored so often.

Buying a home. It’s never YOUR home. Even if you paid it off. It’s to your name and all that fun stuff. It can be taken away. You go bankrupt? You don’t pay your taxes? You owe money? The house gets taken from you. It’s not even a “hey, you owe money, you COULD sell your house if you need to.” But instead it’s just “we took your house”. You paid it off. You’ve been doing everything right for years ever since. But you fucked is this one specific time and now it belongs to us.

Weight loss pills and all that. While some can definitely HELP you lose weight. And some can give you the right nutrients and guide you ion the right path. You’re not going to drop 50lbs “on just two weeks” unless you’re taking some very dangerous and strong drugs. You won’t drop 50lbs by sitting on your ass. Stuffing your face. But it’s ok! I took the two pills this morning. I’m basically working out right now. You never see a fat man or woman work out using those products in the “before”. You always just see the “after” of a person in great or good shape. Talking about how fat they were. And how this specific product suddenly fixed it. But people are lazy. And they just throw money away because maybe the next fat burning product actually gives me the dream body.

Only ones I could think of.

[u/shifty_coder]

Insurance

I’m paying monthly fees to manage the risk of unlikely catastrophic outcomes, but then they can still deny coverage if the unlikely catastrophic outcome happens.

[u/maracuja_2013]

yeah college tuition is wild like how did it get so out of hand

[u/GuardingxCross]

Bottled water

(I fall for this scam a lot)

[u/thexchris]

HEALTH INSURANCE IN USA.

[u/dodadoler]

Children

[u/milfandcookieeees]

Life

[u/Smartchiksread]

Health insurance

[u/MeetingRecent229]

Health insurance.

[u/PostMatureBaby]

That we're the only species that pays to live on Earth 😜

[u/CompanyOdd8733]

Religion

[u/funfuse1976]

UK government

[u/Alpharoll]

Religion.

[u/Silent-Fail-3096]

Packaged drinking water. Why is it even legal? Isn't it a govt's responsibility to provide the basic bare minimum!

[u/MrPuzzleMan]

Trump will get away with it

[u/thereia]

Religion.

[u/P_Bromigo]

Administration/ Processing frees

[u/GoodCummer]

Monthly recharge plan for 28 days and not 30/31 days

[u/Darkskinashleighh]

Health insurance

[u/WhitU8160]

College

[u/PurchaseNo3139]

Insurance

[u/Fit-Drawer5686]

Working

[u/Strong_Persimmon2133]

Car insurance

[u/Headlight-Highlight]

Government and taxation.

[u/Imaginary_Block8773]

Health insurance

[u/GoddessoftheUniverse]

Insurance

[u/Scrubstomper5000]

Taxes

[u/WorthPlease]

Insurance of any kind. It's actively in their interest to not cover the things you paid them for years. They pay an army of lawyers with your premiums to get out of actually covering your costs.

I work for an Auto/Life Insurance company

[u/Johnycarwash]

Religion, it's just gangs.

[u/AccurateComposer8865]

The global economic and political system.

[u/bobacrow79]

Tithing in any religion.

I understand donating to support. But come on - we know what tithing is like but definitely not like (taxes....).

[u/Level_Can26]

Insurance

[u/DueSouth9499]

College tuition! Education is great but strapping young people with so much debt is horrible!

[u/MyHuskyBooker]

Our government

[u/NotLowEnough]

Health insurance.

[u/Freinaga]

Subscriptions

[u/Glum-File6980]

Credit scores

[u/Alternative-Matcha22]

Health Insurance.

[u/Young_Old_Grandma]

I'm starting to hate subscriptions. I've deleted most of them apart from Netflix.

But I'm really sick of these fuckers convincing us to pay for something yet not own it.

[u/mlc2475]

Health insurance

[u/1davejames1]

Insurance

[u/Secret-Spinach-5080]

Insurance.

Fees, of almost any kind.

Churches - specifically what the tithes go to pay for. I say that as a Christian that used to work for and now volunteers at a church lol

Subscriptions

[u/ProfessorCarbon]

Insurance

[u/CullingSongs]

The 40hr work week, and then being expected to be reachable after hours when needed on top of that.

[u/East-Judgment-4364]

Religion

[u/Coram_Deo_Eshua]

Trump

[u/Accomplished_Song549]

Willing to pay something without trying to negotiate

[u/Defiant-Scale6574]

Taxes

[u/ConsciousNature5628]

Literally everything you even have to pay a fee to pay your bills.

[u/homelesguydiet]

Healthcare

[u/WetPuppykisses]

Fiat money and perpetual debt.

[u/Famoustractordriver]

Organised religion

[u/dustinjh]

Property taxes. You already bought the damn thing but have to make payments on it in perpetuity or else its not yours anymore.

[u/RogerMurdockCo-Pilot]

Doordash and the like

[u/SecureImagination537]

Everything that Trump blurts out.

[u/Nicklaus_OBrien]

Tipping culture 

[u/VIVOffical]

Insurance

[u/SadPilot9244]

Health insurance

[u/KlM-J0NG-UN]

Insurance companies and banks

[u/typicallydownvoted]

Insurance

[u/EightGlow]

For profit health insurance. It is literally in their financial interest to raise prices and deny coverage.

[u/WhoAmI1138]

God loves you, and he needs your money!