What's some of the dumbest, most-backwards traditions exclusive to your country?

[MCheetah]

What's some of the dumbest, most-backwards, moronic customs and traditions that your country has?

THE US:

- LOBBYING!!! It's absolutely insane how lobbying is even legal in the US or anywhere else on Earth. You could argue lobbying and corporations owning Washington is what's led to the downfall of the US.

- Tip Culture. Retarded as f*ck, idiotic, and hurts everyone involved but the manager, who gets to screw over both their worker and customers. I never tip. And neither does the rest of the world.

- High ambulance and emergency service bills. Being charged expensive bills for ambulance rides and emergency service is insane. Some people literally would rather die or stay sick than pay for emergency medical service in the US.

- Mandatory auto insurance. Yeah, I know other countries do it to, but it's the highest and worst in the US. I refused to buy a car because I wasn't going to waste hundreds of dollars every month on literally nothing. I'd argue parking is almost as big of a waste of money, but at least makes slightly more sense and isn't mandatory.

THE UK:

- TV License.

- No official protected free speech.

SOUTH KOREA:

- Jeonse; super-high security deposits for apartment rentals in Korea (usually $5-10k, on average) in addition to paying actual rent.

[Lionman95]

One of the biggest problem´s is that in Germany we have a list of national television and radio stations everybody that pays taxes has to pay for.
One has to pay this tax for everyhold household you have.
The idea behind that is in theory good though because the government wants to secure a giving around of information that isn´t influenced by private interests like lobby campaigns or similar.
The problem is rather that the tax can be increased by the government without a transparent justification for it.
There is no way to protest against an increase plus the television programs are full of shows that are often rather documentated activism than journalism.

[Fuentes]

Thats why most GSW'S walk to the hospitals or drive themselves cause of high ambulance bills & then when they get to the hospital the police have to be called if they weren't already.

[jamesgoldman]

As a Brit the TV licence will probably not exist in 5-10 years and is the dumbest thing ever