“Innocent” Scams That We’re All Guilty Of Falling For Without Even Realizing It

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“Almost literally everything now. Everything that used to work, flawed or otherwise, is now a grift. Nothing functions correctly, companies don’t sell or make things people want, nothing that used to work and last can work and last because in order for the company to make more money this year than last year, they need to sell you another one.”

“Coupons and reward programs? Pointless. It’s all to track your purchases. The sale price is the regular price, and the regular price is inflated. If you aren’t a new customer, there are no rewards.

Consumer goods? It’s going to break. You need to buy a new one next year. Or it’s a subscription. Or it’s going to break and is a subscription.

Finances? The government is actively tanking the market to buy the dip, and everything that used to be somewhat reliable is exclusively for the wealthy already and or fartpoopoopeepeecoin that you SHOULD invest in, even though the entire point is to get in early and sell before everyone else and everyone involved knows that

Entertainment? It’s all slop, and you WILL buy it and the bucket that is shaped like a tenga, and it’ll be a $100 experience per person. Things that have existed since the 70s and could be done five nights a week by a lower-middle-class earner are now $75 base to do.

Everything is $75. Go outside, anticipate spending $75 on doing it.

The boiled frogs pan has been getting higher temp for decades, but COVID took the pan off the pot for 15 minutes, and when it sat it back down the burner was 150 degrees hotter and the pan is bending.”

—u/glopthrowawayaccount