"Earning a living".
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2026
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Extended Warranties.
Dying.
Everyone thinks that you are supposed to go to the hospital when you are dying as if they are going to like, stop you from dying.
Mostly what they do is make sure that you don't leave anything behind for your kids to inherit as they spend a million dollars a day keeping you a miserable vegetable for a week.
Once that is done the funeral industry shows up to make sure that you dump the rest into buying a worthless box and digging a hole.
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Suburbia, and by extension big-box stores. Hell, the entire fucking American economy is a huge scam just waiting to permanently collapse.
FIAT money
Fees for leaving.
Cordless power tools. Yes, they are useful in concept, but today they're just a loss-leader to sell you overpriced batteries.
I wouldn't call that a scam. (Modern) Cordless power tools are fucking incredible despite the branded batteries being a rip-off. I literally have corded tools that I don't even use because extension cords are a real pain in the ass some times.
As the other commenter shared, in Germany they're working on an interchangeable battery system. In the U.S., the manufacturers sell intro bundles cheaply to get us locked into their "ecosystem." That's the scam part. I've got a drill and impact driver set that i paid less for than the replacement cost of the included batteries. It's the same scheme as inkjet printers.
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Being told to go therapy, instead of being told to burn down the oligarchy.
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