Saturday, January 2, 2021

Obvious Scams Americans Have Been Conditioned To Accept


Nothing quite brings the blood to a boil like learning that you've been played by some manipulative, deceptive, straight up illegal scam. Unfortunately, the reality is that we share this world with many folks that are always proactively trying to pull a fast one on unsuspecting victims. The good news though is that you can read up on a thread like this, and hopefully break free from the vicious cycle of falling for scams that Americans have been conditioned to accept. Along a similar vein check out this woman's wonderful experience with the Icelandic healthcare system

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Text - WaYaADisi1 • 18h Unpaid internships. It is literally wage theft. Q Reply 1.2k •..

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Text - deccytag • 22h Your cellphone plans. In my country I pay €20 for unlimited calls, SMS and data. I work in phone sales, whenever I speak to an American they cannot believe how cheap our plans are compared to what they pay. O Q Reply 1.9k ... +

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Text - imnotyourbrahh • 1d Charging $1 to add cheese Reply 1.4k ...

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Text - jude802 · 1d 2 Awards nobody is mentioning the push that "college is for everyone! also you aren't able to default on your student loans so banks will give them to anyone. coincidentally, we started telling people that they should ALL go to college, no matter their situation, right after passing the bill that made student loans impossible to hide from." Reply 2.2k ...

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Text - johnydeformed · 1d 1 Award Tax Filing For the majority of wage earners, the IRS can easily determine how much you owe and tell you, or tell you what you're owed in a refund. It's simple. That they don't do so is only because tax preparation companies lobby lawmakers to keep the system as it is. Tax preparation companies only exist because they are legally allowed, middle men. They are slow, complicated, costly, and the opposite of free market efficiency. Reply 4.9k ...

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Text - BaconReceptacle • 1d 1 Award Prescription eye glasses. They should be maybe $100 tops but we pay multiple times that for them. Q Reply 1 3.8k ...

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Text - WatchTheBoom · 1d Politicians talk about the need for healthcare, but create legislation for healthcare insurance. Those are not the same things. In fact, the latter actually is a barrier to the former. Reply 4.3k ...

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Text - Pontus_Pilates • 1d S 2 Awards The idea that you need to work endless hours and never have time off. There are plenty of countries where people work reasonable hours, have five-week summer vacations and the economies don't fall apart. You are not lazy if you don't eat at your desk or while driving. Reply 3.4k ...

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Text - adsvx215 • 1d Diamonds. Reply 2.3k ... +B

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Text - Proud_Finish • 1d Wedding business. Everyone nowadays thinks their wedding has to be super grand and such. But paying +2500$ for a dress you can only wear once is super overrated in my opinion. Reply 1 2.1k 3 ...

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Text - bloomfaith • 20h Rent To Own products. (Rent-A-Center, Aarons, Conns, etc..) You end up paying triple or quadruple the value of the product for virtually no other benefit than you'd get if you just saved a little money and bought the product out-right. Reply 1 768 3 ...

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Text - BioLuminescentSpirit · 1d When a website offers you a free trial, but it still wants your credit card info. Reply 689 ...

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Text - Adult_Reasoning • 1d Car dealerships. They're literally just middle-man functions that do nothing more than raise the cost of the "good" and produce taxation for the government on multiple levels of the transactions involved in purchasing a car through the third party. + Q Reply 4 999 ...

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Text - tripster72 · 1d 2 Awards Lawmakers allowed to invest in the stock market Q Reply 1 3.2k

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Text - sprucetrap1987 • 1d For profit health insurance. We still pay for other people's healthcare, we just do it in a much more bloated and expensive way than universal healthcare. Reply 169 ...

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Text - 1 Award Healthcare, all the way. All those heartfelt stories on people who raised 100,000 for their neighbors surgery, and it's great, but no one seems to question why that was necessary in the first place. The person in question has insurance and they're still struggling to pay for this procedure? Even worst if it's life-threatening. People have to make GoFundMe's, petition, all kinds of stuff. To have the basic right to not have to go broke when you see a doctor. E Q Reply ↑ 997 3 •..

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Text - vietcong420 · 1d Only getting 10 days worth of annual leave per year and then being encouraged not to use it Edit.. im Irish working in Dublin who gets 22 days leave a year (excluding public holidays which add an additional 9 days to the count) + Reply 545 5

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Text - Buttons840 • 18h Identity theft. The bank fails to properly vet someone they gave money to, and now it's your problem. You did nothing, the bank made a mistake. How is that your problem? And look at credit monitoring companies, they claim they can detect fraud on your credit report. Yet, credit monitoring companies and credit reporting companies are one and the same -- literally the same company. So the real message is "pay us and we will not make false reports about you in our credit rep

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Text - Mean_Increase_ • 1d Tipping restaurant servers so the owners of the restaurant don't have to pay them a living wage. Reply 2.4k ...

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Text - hesitantmaneatingcat · 1d Insurance. Sure it works as intended, but it could be non-profit so rates are cheaper and rebates are given, not so someone can get filthy rich. All the unused money at the end of the year should go back to the insured, not the insurer less a fair wage. Reply 106 ...

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Text - dagdegan · 21h Wedding rings and ceremonies and the that whole deal... we can literally trace the need for an expensive ring to a commercial by De Beers... but talk about how it's silly to buy someone a diamond engagement ring and you're met by people saying "wait till you get married" lol Reply 42 ...

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