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20+ Total Scams That Are Accepted by Society for Some Reason

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    Font - Cmsmks 4d ● A fee to pay your bill. Reply 22.4k

    "*service charge" joked u/sassygerman33.

    "And now it's not a flat fee, it's a percentage of your payment. The fucking balls." said u/StephCurryMustard.

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    Rectangle - Lord_Explosion • 4d Subscription services for fucking everything ... Reply 5.1k
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    Font - rebelshirts • 4d Arbitration clauses in almost every service provider contract. Tricking you into giving up your access to the court system. Nobody talks about it, but they should. ... Reply 7.5k

    "A lot of employers make you sign arbitration agreements too." said u/KittyChimera.

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    Rectangle - r AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA92 - 4d 1 Award The right (or refused right) to repair. Absolute bullshit that i cant fix my own shit. ... Reply 13.6k

    "Tried to replaced the blower motor on my AC unit in my house. 4 screws to slide it out and a wire harness to unplug. Turns out I need a HVAC license to even buy the replacement. I don't have an HVAC license." said u/HyperMBE.

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    Human body - Silent Pudding . 4d Unpaid lunches that extend your work day. Reply ... 15.8k

    "One place I use to work would bring lunch for the last 3 days of the month. If they provided lunch they didn't have to pay overtime for an hour. They were known as hostage lunches." said u/RustShaq.

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    Rectangle - thatshisjob 4d • 1 Award Convenience fees on electronic payments ... Reply 38.5k

    "Biggest insult to everyone's intelligence. Pay this extra fee to give us money electronically without needing to pay an employee. it costs so much more for the computer to do it!" said u/Gomez-16.

    "I'm paying money… so that I can pay money. What the absolute fuck." said u/Scrotius_Minimus.

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    Font - Sweetknees66 4d 51 2 Awards The price of printer ink. ... Reply 29.1k
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    Rectangle - Sbeaudette . 4d 7 Awards Ticketmaster ... Reply 33k

    "I was looking for tickets to a pro hockey game. The ticket price was $108 and the Ticketmaster fee was $83. Needless to say, I didn't buy the ticket." u/Duluthian2.

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    Rectangle - darrenturn90. 4d Diamonds ... Reply 14k

    "'Natural' diamonds. And for that matter, the cost of lab created diamonds." said u/WinkyTheFrog.

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    Rectangle - Aware_Cellist_7032 • 4d 2 Awards Claw Machines : ↑ ↓ Reply 4k

    "I went to the Arcade with my daughter and picked up 6 prizes with 6 attempts. Quit while we were ahead...I swear that thing was broken." said u/Diligent_Tie6218.

    "I won an iPad for my daughter back in the day. It was $10 to play (1 attempt), so I normally wouldn't even try for that but it was her birthday so I put aside $30 and gave it a try. Got it on my 2nd attempt, that was a $20 iPad. Then the staff didn't know what to do and had to call the manager because no one had ever won that machine." said u/MistaCharisma.

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    Font - Docxoxxo 4d ● That dental isn't part of medical insurance by default. ... Reply 4.3k

    "Same with eye care." added u/Duchess-of-Erat, "If I can't see, I can't do anything … and I'm practically blind without my glasses. I'd have died in the era before glasses were invented."

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    Font - Bogacki • 4d That health insurance doesn't cover your eyes or teeth Reply 19.8k ...

    "Our [Swedish] universal healthcare doesn't cover that either." said u/yeast1fixpls.

    "Same in Spain. Which is extra frustrating for me (and my family) because eyes and teeth are literally the only healthcare attention we've ever needed in my life. So we've been just paying taxes and also had to pay for our needs." said u/apistograma.

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    Font - whynotoopsthatswhy 4d. 2 Awards TurboTax. They lobby the government to make it difficult to do taxes without their software. I lived in the UK and it took literally 15 min to do taxes on bad government software ... Reply 19.5k

    "The IRS offers a free alternative available on their website for most people. The IRS also has no advertising budget. Hence why nobody knows about it." said u/YakovAttackov.

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    Rectangle - Teaching Radiant3271 • 4d 4 Awards College bookstores ... Reply 41.9k

    "F*ck McGraw Hill" said u/TeachingRadiant3271.

    "Fuck Pearson and fuck Mymathlab!" said u/catonsteroids.

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    Rectangle - wtforsomesuch • 4d Payday loans. Reply 3.8k

    "Went through a hard time years ago, ended up having no other options to get money but a payday loan. Was stuck in the cycle of, pay off loan and take the same amount for another week to get by. For probably close to a month until work picked back up enough and I could pay it off and have some extra to survive till next pay day. Never ever ever ever ever again. Ever." said u/SlickAMF.

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    Font - msulliv4 • 4d luxury skincare. go to a dermatologist. pay less. get real results. Reply 4.8k
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    Rectangle - Teapot Bagpipe • 4d 6 Awards Health insurance ... Reply 5.4k
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    Font - csrampey 5d ● 4 Awards Worked at Capital One Investing for a while. Came to understand that the 401(k) system is merely the base layer of a congressionally-sanctioned Ponzi scheme to prop up our stock market. If 401(k) contributions were to dry up tomorrow, the entire house of cards collapses. There is now legislation that proposes increasing the contribution limits and even making 401(k) participation MANDATORY for some employers. A healthy financial system wouldn't need such measures. .
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    Font - tellkrish. 4d As an academic scientist pick one of these two: We use tax payer money to fund biomedical research, which we then write up into a research study and pay the Journal so that they can publish the said study only for the journals to turn around and put them behind a paywall. We also use taxpayer money to fund years of biomedical research, which occasionally results in a groundbreaking drug/treatment, which then gets licensed out (usually) by a pharma company, which then marks u
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    Rectangle - -SpecTor- 4d ● 17 Awards Reddit awards. ... Reply 3.9k

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