Luxury handbags that cost $60k. Not just a handbag, but to diversify your investment and launder money.
Homeopathy. It’s literally based on the idea that diluting stuff turns it into a remedy.
joke’s on you, i’ve been drinking 100000x distilled dinosaur piss and i’m growing stronger by the day
Homeopaths: thoroughly confused by cordial.
Renting
Lottery’s the expected value is always lower than the prize of a ticket. And even if you win it is on the back of other poor desparete people who lost. An then there is the fact winning often leads to a lot of other problems.
A.I.
in general.When some talking head talks about why
today or today, the real reason is “insiders traded it that way” with a mix of “this is how rich assholes feel.”The United States of America
The Democratic Party of the USA
Theranos ‘company’.
Compound interest
In what way is compound interest a scam? Who has been “scammed” by compound interest and how?
For most of history charging interest was considered very unethical. There’s even a derogatory term for it: usury.
It’s a rather recent phenomenon that usury has become acceptable.
Ok, but its archaic status as immoral does not make it a “scam” today.
It’s a scam because it’s literally free money for the lender. They do no work, they generate no value, but they still get paid.
Providing someone else money for a time to use for whatever purpose they desire is of no value? I think that literally most every person on the planet would disagree with you. Are you saying you’ve never borrowed money for anything, ever?
Yep. The one time Jesus got violent in the Bible, it was against the money lenders.
And that means it’s a scam today how exactly? The Bible was pretty explicitly against a lot of things. Are they scams? Is wearing two different fabrics a scam? Is eating shellfish a scam?
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capitalism
Credit scores are a scam to sell credit cards.
You take small loans each month via a credit card that you have to pay back. This increases an imaginary number that lets you take out bigger loans in the furure.
This is all tracked by private companies that you trust with your personal data. That, or you’ll not be able to take out a loan if you want to buy a house or start a business.
If you have a good credit score it means that you don’t overspend or forget to pay, which you can also achieve with a regular debit card by default. This doesn’t serve people, only the banks who expect that a number of people will overspend or not be able to pay their loans back.
Credit cards alone aren’t the problem. Forcing them on people with the credit score system is.
Capitalism and the interest based investor economy.
“I own this machine and everything you create with it” is a fundamentally flawed way to run a society.
ITT: Things people personally think are scammy, but not actual legally-defined scams.
