‘What’s a harmless scam everyone unknowingly participates in?’ – 17 absolute rip-offs we’re all buying into
10.
‘Banks that charge monthly fees just for you to access your money. They’re taking your money and investing it with record returns every single year and only giving a fraction of a percent interest rate on your savings. Oh, and they’re even laundering drug money’
-Worldly-Time-3201
11.
‘When you sign up for apps like Instagram, TikTok and Twitter you agree to the TOS and in the TOS you are agreeing to let all of them and more have a royalty-free worldwide license to use anything you upload
‘This means your selfies and pictures of your family or kids or pets, your TikToks of your original content whether it’s dancing and looking hot or simply doing education videos, all of it can be used in their ads and marketing and anything else they want
‘So if you opened your phone one day and a picture of you and your kids or a video bouncing around in a swimsuit were being used in an ad you get no money and can’t legally have it taken down, you gave it away it’s theirs now too’
-realfakejames
12.
‘Recycling.
‘Yes it’s a scam. Yes, you should do it anyway. Something is better than nothing, and some of what you put in the blue bin might actually get recycled, so it’s worth the minuscule effort to run two bins.’
-CampusTour
13.
‘Buying new trendy things. We make up trends arbitrarily and have to get new stuff to fit into with it.’
-bapboopbeep
14.
‘Software subscription services.’
-Acrobatic_Hippo_9593
15.
‘The concept of “exposure” as payment for creative work. Like, companies worth billions will ask artists or designers to work for free because it’ll “look good on your portfolio.” Meanwhile they’re charging full price for the product. It’s wild how normalized that is.’
-LyricDaisy
16.
‘the added fees on an airplane ticket. ticket says it’s 50 bucks. Fine. Then it turns out to be like 200 dollars with all the fees’
-Sensitive-Hamster-54
17.
‘Someone should correct me if I’m wrong, but data storage. I remember when having like 30mb on an mp3 player felt like a big deal. Now you can get a 1TB flashdrive the size of my thumb relatively inexpensively. Why my phone and computer can’t automatically hold 750gb+ feels intentional.’
-HalifaxStar
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