JoeClu,
@JoeClu@lemmy.world avatar

Marketing and advertising. They show a huge, juicy, scrumptous nice quality burger. You go to buy it and it’s a cold, limp, tiny, frail nothing burger.

There used to be a law about false advertising. But it doesn’t seem to be enforced anymore. Marketing and advertising can lie straight to your face. Its not right and shouldnt be tolerated.

And Americans are so complacent about it, they say things like, “It’s , what’d you expect?” Instead of demanding what was advertised. It’s soul crushing. It’s like we’ve given up.

scarabic,

Religion. The all-time champion, no contest, just as George Carlin said:

youtu.be/2tp0UNcjzl8

scarabic,

Massage school. They say they’re teaching you a trade and will help with job placement but there is a glut of graduates and not enough jobs for them. Yet the school keeps signing up new students because that’s how they make money.

soul,
@soul@lemmy.world avatar

To be fair, schools are not responsible for the availability of the job market.

abbotsbury,
@abbotsbury@lemmy.world avatar

If part of the tuition is supposed to cover job placement, it is their responsibility to not teach more than they can employ.

deadcatbounce,
@deadcatbounce@reddthat.com avatar

Democracy.

Prethoryn,
@Prethoryn@lemmy.world avatar

Get th fuck out of here.

Lemmers like you are the problem.

Ciano,

Shampoo 😂

TurnItOff_OnAgain,

Shampoo a scam?

AdrianTheFrog,
@AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world avatar

Adobe

Psythik,

Thankfully they make their products easy to pirate. I didn’t mind forking over for Photoshop & Premiere CS6, but there’s no way in hell I am paying a regular subscription fee for CC. They already have my money.

sma3in,
@sma3in@lemmy.world avatar

ads

AttackBunny,

Religion Healthcare Insurance Tipping

Ddhuud,

Companies being the sole arbiters of OTA “Upgrades” and DRM “purchases”.

obinice,
@obinice@lemmy.world avatar

Capitalism and religion, easily the top two scams.

MesaShrike,

Printers

k5nn,

Which part the ink cartridges?

TheWoozy,

Block chain - there’s still no legitimate practical use for it

lunicoDee,

I wouldn’t agree, but I have no example in mind, so I agree (?)

comfisofa,

A legitimate practical use is anonymised online transactions using cryptocurrencies designed for such purposes (like Monero)

icepuncher69,

To buy drugs, guns and hitmen right? Otherwise stick to paypal m8.

crab,

Might as well use reddit if you cant see a little (if not a lot) of benefit to using something decentralized over its centralized counterpart.

The anonymous aspect and lack of fees/operation should be self explanatory.

icepuncher69,

The problem is that is used for illegal shit moslty. Be it the aformentioned or scams. And the problem is that money as a concept is centraliced and controled by whatever entity holds the most of whatever is based on, be it gold or whatever. It shouldnt but it is. And the whole " you better use reddit since you suck centraliced feet" thing, tho that i say to you grow up.

icepuncher69,

Well there is if you are looking for illegal goods like drugs, guns and others.

Waraugh,

We use it for asset tracking and document control

tastysnacks,

When you buy real estate, they have to do a title search to ensure you own the property. Block chain could be the replacement.

TheWoozy,

Fashion

starclaude,

gacha game, paying premium money, an insane amount event just to see virtual character

jwagner7813,

Oh you mean the unregulated, gambling industry?

BilboBargains,

British royal family.

Religions that collect money from adherents.

Web 2.0 data harvesting.

7heo,

That would be web 3.0 now.

xylltch,

The problem is that we keep jumping up to new major versions where of course there’s all kinds of regressions. We really just need to revert to Web 2.7.3 rev4, now that was a polished release.

7heo,

Marketing just threatened to lower your salary by 27.34% and cancel your bonuses.

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