Dental care being treated as separate from health care.
You can die from teeth issues
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2026
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Water companies, when there's only one in the area. I've played this boardgame before...
Monopolies in general.
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Subscriptions for everything. Especially hardware.
I already hate my always-online, have to use their shit app robot vacuum that gets worse after each update. I can't imagine buying a new, overpriced car these days and having it do all the same shit.
I moved to Chicago a few years. I go to rent an apartment. It has a "move-in" fee.
I'm like what's that.
Oh it's $500 that you don't get back.
I say. What about the deposit? They say. Oh yeah we don't require that. Isn't that great ,?
I'm like. So move in fee is my deposit but it's just guaranteed I won't get it back.
Them: well it's different. It's a move in fee. We don't require a deposit but if you don't clean out the apartment to this list of specifications, we will charge you per item you miss.
Example. Refrigerator not cleaned :$150 Floors not clean : $200
Etc.
So I was super unhappy about this and complained to anyone who would listen. To which my new Chicago neighbors and friends were like "that's how it's always been here,"
Bro. Y'all getting fucked. Hard. Non refundable deposit where you still have to clean out the old apartment.
Wtf. Should be illegal.
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Services that still bother touting the whole 'up to' practice.
You're never guaranteed anything, you just deal with what the service decides to give you. Internet especially, if you're always getting less than the speed advertised - oh well - they said 'up to' which to them means, you'll get it on a good day but every other day, deal with what's there.
Two party politics
Capitalism
Liberalism
The real estate market. The value of labour and materials necessary to build a house is about 30 to 40 thousand euros. Everything else is speculation.
Location matters though. It wouldn't make sense for a house to cost as much as it does to make. Though obviously prices have become completely detached from reality.
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