People Are Sharing The “Silent” Scams In Society We All Just Kind Of Accept, And I Hadn’t Even Thought Of Some Of These

Recently, I came upon a station from Reddit idiosyncratic Sweet_Programmer_592 connected the fashionable Ask Reddit leafage that looked benignant of interesting. In it, they asked, "What’s a soundless scam successful nine that everybody conscionable accepts?" and whew, were the answers varied. Here are immoderate of the best:

1."Subscription-based EVERYTHING nowadays."

—u/JTHuffy

2."Health insurance. It’s each made-up numbers. 30,000% mark-ups. But hey, you prevention with insurance! All you person to bash is wage $250 a period positive the full $6,000 deductible for it to adjacent footwear in..."

Paramount Pictures

—u/ArboristTreeClimber

"Private wellness insurance. It's virtually organized crime."

—u/Yereli

3."Health security and the information that dental is separate."

—u/Cigaran

"And vision!"

—u/v13

4."Paying taxation connected a utilized car (or utilized anything, really)."

—u/IllustriousLength318

5."Taxpayer-funded probe that is patented and privatized arsenic soon arsenic it yields results, and past is sold backmost to the aforesaid taxpayers that funded its development."

—u/---Spartacus---

6."Shrinkflation: Companies softly trim merchandise sizes but support prices the same, truthful we wage much per portion without realizing it. It’s accepted arsenic mean inflation, but it’s truly a sneaky terms hike."

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—u/tessaemilybrown

7."Almost virtually everything now. Everything that utilized to work, flawed oregon otherwise, is present a grift. Nothing functions correctly, companies don't merchantability oregon marque things radical want, thing that utilized to enactment and past tin enactment and past present due to the fact that successful bid for the institution to marque much wealth this twelvemonth than past year, they request to merchantability you different one."

HBO

"Coupons and reward programs? Pointless. It's each to way your purchases, the merchantability terms is the regular price, and the regular terms is inflated; if you aren't a caller customer, determination are nary rewards.

Consumer goods? They're going to break. You request to bargain a caller 1 adjacent year. Or it's a subscription. Or it's going to interruption and is simply a subscription.

Finances? The authorities is actively tanking the marketplace to bargain the dip, and everything that utilized to beryllium somewhat reliable is exclusively for the affluent already, oregon is immoderate crypto that you SHOULD put in, adjacent though the full constituent is to get successful aboriginal and merchantability earlier everyone other and everyone progressive knows that.

The boiled frogs' cookware has been getting higher temp for decades, but COVID took the cookware disconnected the cookware for 15 minutes, and erstwhile it sat backmost down, the burner was 150 degrees hotter and the cookware is bending."

—u/glopthrowawayaccount

8."Megachurches being tax-exempt. They're allowed to meddle successful politics, assistance sway elections, and each kinds of different BS, but get to reap billions of dollars tax-free."

—u/Ianm1225

9."Timeshares."

—u/norm_190

10."Ticketing fees. When you bargain tickets online, other fees get added for things similar 'processing' oregon a 'service fee.' Everyone conscionable accepts them, but it’s fundamentally paying much for an automated service."

ABC

—u/tessaemilybrown

"Absolutely this. I perfectly hatred Ticketmaster, but if I privation to spot the show, I person to bargain my summons done them. I often question to spot concerts, truthful I can't conscionable physically sojourn the venue and bargain a ticket. I ever bargain an beforehand truthful that I get a bully spot for a bully price, due to the fact that I bash not privation to wage hundreds of dollars for a resale ticket."

—u/True-University-6545

11."Taxpayers subsidizing ballparks and stadiums."

—u/kukukele

12."The outgo of ceremonial services."

—u/NSFWdw

13."Pop-up ads. You usage my bandwidth to archer maine blatant lies astir things I don't need."

NBC / Via giphy.com

—u/defyclassification

14."Tipping. It's the employer's relation to wage their employees fairly."

—u/draxenato

15."Paying to parkland astatine a spot for which you besides wage admission."

"Example: amusement parks. I already paid $200 for my family's tickets, and I'm definite I'll walk much connected overpriced nutrient successful the park. Why bash I also have to wage $40 conscionable to person a spot to enactment my car for the day?"

—u/HawaiianShirtsOR

16."I'm shocked nary 1 has said recognition scores yet; the 3 recognition monitors/clearinghouses are publically traded, for-profit companies."

"They perpetually effort to merchantability you different services and affiliated services similar recognition cards (which, since they cognize your recognition score, is simply a implicit struggle of involvement successful my opinion); recognition scores don’t transportation crossed borders; everyone is forced to interact with these companies successful immoderate way; and the things that impact your recognition people are often a mystery. Definitely a fucking scam."

—u/ellsego

17."Taxes. The IRS knows what 99% of Americans owe, and yearly reconciliation is simply a 100% scam that H&R Block lobbyists bribe Congress to maintain. Both Obama and Trump publically wanted it reformed, but some were rejected by well-bribed Congress."

NBC

—u/ManufacturerPublic

18."I hatred that each fewer months oregon years it seems I request to telephone my telephone provider, garbage company, cable, car insurance, and endanger to permission to get them to little my bill, oregon power to a caller institution to get 'new subordinate pricing.' It’s beyond annoying."

—u/Mimi4Stotch

19."YouTube reviews and demos."

"It utilized to beryllium a level for the radical by the people, showing what things truly are. Now it’s filled with selling folks dreaming of being famous, who marque you deliberation you’ll beryllium similar them if you usage the products they’re 'reviewing.'"

—u/Square-Heat-3758

20."Rounding up astatine checkouts truthful that corporations tin usage our donations to screen the overhead of the charitable enactment associated with their business, portion besides utilizing those 'donations' to get themselves monolithic taxation breaks."

"Never donate to a non-profit done a for-profit. Give the wealth arsenic straight arsenic imaginable to the radical who request it."

—u/lxnarratorxl

21."Cars. Can’t truly beryllium a subordinate of modern nine without 1 successful astir places, and they are highly expensive, highly dangerous, highly loud, and 1 of the worst sources of aerial and h2o pollution."

—u/Cache-Cow

Got immoderate "silent scam" observations of your ain to share? Tell maine each astir it down successful the comments. I privation to perceive it all!