Normalized Scams People Don't Notice

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the scams of this world that are so normalized that nobody seems to notice. It's wild when it comes to some of the shady stuff that people/companies can somehow get away with. For instance, some of those internships can get pretty scammy real quick. 

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