What's the Biggest SCAM in Life?

[Katebfun]

[Whitey_Johnson]

The U. S. Federal Income Tax (which is written as a tax upon the national government, not the entire population), followed closely by government's theft of right to travel and all the costs that come with private, non-commercial travel in a "motor vehicle" ("motor vehicle" sales taxes, fuel taxes, inflated insurance costs due to allowing insurance companies to include "loss on reinsurance contracts" in rate reimbursement plans, annual registrations, annual ad valorem taxes).

[Fromdusktilldawn]

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having to work to be able to live and then getting ripped off by taxes (which go into funding wars, immigrants, greenwashing projects etc)

[strateguy632]

taxes are a small percent.

[Fromdusktilldawn]

@strateguy632 in your country maybe

[naartjie]

Making mothers go back to works a few months after the baby is born.
Making a woman believe they should work so the government can tax more people.
It leads to children getting brought up and taught at schools that are bias and try teach your kids to live how the rest of this nut job society does.

[electromagnetic]

Buying garbage bags.
Paying taxes and still owing during the tax season.
Thinking 8hrs of sleep is enough.
Being told to eat healthier but a bag of 4 apples costs more than 2 bags of potato chips.
Bottled water.
Paying to use public washrooms.

Do you want me to keep going?

[Katebfun]

Please do.. I'm curious. I'm building up my optimistic nihilism skills. 😅🤣

[electromagnetic]

Buying chapstick to hide dehydration symptoms.
Paying Uber waiting surcharge after waiting for your Uber when you originally placed the order.
Filling a plane in sections rather than back to front to prevent congestion and line ups.
iPhones (sadly I owned one too)
Going to university for a degree but not getting a job because you won’t be compensated correctly compared to the person who worked up the ranks.
Coffee shops (truthfully any shops for things you can easily have at home for 50-80% less)
Buying house plants.

[Katebfun]

@electromagnetic Thanks. I agree to most. I love house plants 🪴

[JoePro_]

Government. I'm not an anarchist (and I got no beef with people who are), but the majority of what the government does and says is a bunch of nonsense. Almost always a power move. Public doesn't know what effect that has elsewhere, but politicians, their lawyers and tacticians sure do. And then they sell it to us like it's to our benefit.

[Katebfun]

I agree 👍. Government is crooked. Agreeing with the highes $$$ Bidder. Government keeps us sick so Doctors/nurses are employed. Booze, cigarettes& Drugs are funded by the same companies who help you out of addiction. Nicotine gum is the same company who makes cigarettes 🚬 🚭. It's a sick twisted cycle.

[JoePro_]

Bingo. And they gotta play both sides, to hedge against losses.

[ChicoFromThe305]

The medical field, they feed you crap and put shit in your food so you get sick, you go to the doctor, they prescribe you medication and it helps with your problem but causes a problem else where that makes you sick again, then the cycle repeats, they are milking us.

[Jennz6]

Doctors are just practicing

[ChicoFromThe305]

Yep they don't teach them to sure, they teach em to prescribe

[strateguy632]

college courses that don't include "internships" in part of the course.

without naming colleges they have other scams and can force me to do stuff even against the contract agreement. changing tuition! or other tricks to delay graduation to demand more money.

[Siri137]

The biggest scam by far would have to be the belief that voting actually makes any difference to anything at all. As the old saying goes, "If voting made any difference to anything, they (those who really rule us) wouldn't allow it".

[Curmudgeon]

Today? A good many university or college degrees. If it isn't S. T. E. M., it isn't real. Business and Accounting/Finance are borderline.

[Siri137]

Most people don't have the aptitude for STEM though, which is why they study other things like biology, sociology and basket-weaving.

[worldscolide]

College. Hands down. I started going to school for what i do now, but I got sick of it. So instead i hold 60 different certifications related to my chosen field of work.

[FreyaRed]

Our inflationary money, it loses permanently on value even in times of prosperity. Our governments rob us out

[strateguy632]

and magnified by the decision by truman dnc' about gold standard. not just a risky move against republicans, but EVEN against democratic economic advisor. seems suspicious!

[deus_ex_sisyphus]

In this economy, Id say the idea that maintaining a 9-5 position as a law abiding citizen will allow you to meet all of your needs (shout out maslov).

[KittygosMeoWW]

Us paying forward on our retirement fund at least for my generation. What the government pays us back is only a portion and not even guaranteed to be enough to sustain a basic life.

[SweetDripp]

College tuition increases way above the inflation rate.

[JacobJordan]

Medical field, politics, religion take your pick

[loveslongnails]

Information. Most of what we think we know is wrong.

[strateguy632]

and we all see the "agree concensus" on internet searches for issue after issue swaying us in the "desired direction as decided by private company agendas".

[loveslongnails]

@strateguy632 if you saying it's just an internet version of mob rule mentality, then yes, but nothing's changed there.

[tfan1]

The demonic rats, oBlahma and sleepy joe bonehead biden

[Billlewis]

Far left regressivism.

[msc545]

Capitalism, especially as practiced in the US.

[Flatmanlewis]

What system do you think is better?

[strateguy632]

@Flatmanlewis haha i once asked someone anti capitalism if they prefer communist economy that caused suffering... they are just haters of anything American but they not compared.

[Flatmanlewis]

I just am always baffled how these anti-capitalist, commie infatuated people hide in this massive blind spot of history in which communism both squashes human rights at a horrific level AND equally leads to death and violence which even exceeds Nazi levels. They claim the people living in the highest quality of life in the world are ‘oppressed’.

[BonMot]

As someone who owns 3 condos, I feel that HOAs (Home Owners Associations) are the biggest scam.

[Bklynbadboy12]

That's if you work hard your be successful

[Katebfun]

Yep, I've seen 1st hand what its doing to my parents after working hard their whole life and now needing to retire. If you have no spouse in old age, Good luck.

[Nikki1989]

Politics.

[NathanDavis]

voting...

[Flatmanlewis]

Income tax, college, socialism.

[gorydetails]

Social security.

[LiamJHayden]

The income tax.

[BCRanger10]

College and socialism.

[TommyMountainFigure]

I think a LOT of sport is fixed!

[lightbulb27]

hard to pick one...

Inflation...

[BoopBoopBeep]

property taxes

[Ironco]

Politics, definitely politics

[SpaceGalaxy]

R E L I G I O N

[Heolurt]

The belief of "love"

[Katebfun]

Love is real. Do you mean romantic love?

[Heolurt]

Any kind of love

[Katebfun]

@Heolurt " Love is the bridge between you and everything" - Rumi

[Heolurt]

I've never been shown "love" of any kind in life so it's not something I believe in.

[normalice]

Republicans

[strateguy632]

you just had to say that, compulsive! lol.

[normalice]

Just had to reply to me. Compulsive! Lol. 🤷

[Kingofkings1992]

You are a sick person

[normalice]

and another one.

[Paulychicagoluv]

Insurance

[Anonymous]

Relationships.

[Nik1hil]

Happiness

[shortster]

Party politics.

[Kingofkings1992]

Car insurance

[jimmy2]

Governments