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At this point in time subscription services. Everything is that way now and the monthly fees for each item adds up.Biggest-Scams-In-History
The diamond industry. Super corrupt and monopolized. Diamonds are great, but it's time to step away from them being the coveted stone.Biggest-Scams-In-History
Insurance of any kind. You use it, the rates go up. You don’t use it, the rates go upBiggest-Scams-In-History
Millionaires running their companies into the ground, filing for bankruptcy, then rinse and repeat.Biggest-Scams-In-History
That if we work hard we'll be able to live comfortably!! afford to buy a house, car, and holidays, when the reality is we can barely afford food and energyBiggest-Scams-In-History
Double taxation. I get being taxed for roads, services and schools (can’t have roads if there’s no money to build them and can’t have schools and teachers if no one pays for that) but we are taxed on our income, fine. Then with the money we got left over, we get taxed again on anything we buy that isn’t groceries. Buy a used car, that tax has already been paid but they tax each new owner for the same car.Biggest-Scams-In-History
The idea that one group of people is innately better than another group of peopleTwoFingersWhiskey reply
Your ancestors did not eat purer food and the preservatives we have now are a thousand times more preferable to what went on before the food safety reforms of the mid 1900s to 1910s. Even in the so-called more pastoral times had no sense of germ theory. Your food - say, a loaf of bread - would be coughed on, sweated on, possibly stomped on or chewed up at some points (esp in bread baking, they'd stomp it down), throw chalk and other adulterants like metal powders in it, and bake it in a dirty oven with unwashed hands, and placed in open fly-ridden air for display and sale. Also, olives are only mushy and rubbery now because freshly canned olives gave so many people deathly food poisoning in the mid-50s, that they now cook 'em in the can like tuna or shredded chicken to avoid another disaster.Calaveras-Metal reply
A lot of things women take for granted are fairly recent developments. Stuff like being able to have a credit card in your name. Buying a car or a house without a male cosigner. And it used to be extremely bad to be a divorced woman. I'm not talking about the 40s. I'm talking about the 70s-80s. Women weren't allowed to get credit cards or open bank accounts until 1974. Women got the vote in 1920. A lot of these vary by state. I'm sure there were states where women bought houses before 74 or had bank accounts. But it wasn't a nationally protected thing until 74. Heck the house I grew up in was bought in 74 by my mom. Coincidence?Extreme-Insurance877 reply
The tram was invented by a Mr. Train King George III was personally *against* the Stamp Act, and in NY a statue was erected of him in thanks for his role in appealing it Nelson Mandela was listed as a terrorist threat (and remained on the terrorist watch-list) in the USA up until 2008.FoucaultsPudendum reply
America-centric: The first person to attend an integrated school only qualified for full Social Security benefits two years ago. People think about the legacy of Jim Crow and American racism as if it were the relic of a bygone era. It’s not. The people who were throwing rotten fruit and rocks at Ruby Bridges- the younger ones- are still alive. Many of them are still running the country. The older ones died recently and absolutely passed on their values to their children, who are probably even younger than Ruby. American racism is not “my ancestors”. It’s “my grandma”.alcohall183 reply
The United States government intentionally poisoned 10,000 people by spiking the alcohol they drank during prohibition.this-guy- reply
Many people know about the Suffragettes who won the vote for some UK women in 1918. Many people don't know that prior to 1918 men did not have universal suffrage. 1918 is also the date which non landowning men got the vote. Prior to that the vote had been only for wealthy landowning lords, just 5% of the population. Over a period of the preceding 80 years concessions were slowly made to allow more men, and then some women to vote.
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Approximately 8% of Canadians were enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I. That isn't 8% of eligible Canadians, or 8% of Canadian men; that's 8% of the entire population of Canada. If a similar proportion enlisted in the United States today, there would be 26 million people serving in the US Armed Forces.alcohall183 reply
The United States government intentionally poisoned 10,000 people by spiking the alcohol they drank during prohibition.RaspberryBirdCat reply
Approximately 8% of Canadians were enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I. That isn't 8% of eligible Canadians, or 8% of Canadian men; that's 8% of the entire population of Canada. If a similar proportion enlisted in the United States today, there would be 26 million people serving in the US Armed Forces.Extreme-Insurance877 reply
The tram was invented by a Mr. Train King George III was personally *against* the Stamp Act, and in NY a statue was erected of him in thanks for his role in appealing it Nelson Mandela was listed as a terrorist threat (and remained on the terrorist watch-list) in the USA up until 2008.TwoFingersWhiskey reply
Your ancestors did not eat purer food and the preservatives we have now are a thousand times more preferable to what went on before the food safety reforms of the mid 1900s to 1910s. Even in the so-called more pastoral times had no sense of germ theory. Your food - say, a loaf of bread - would be coughed on, sweated on, possibly stomped on or chewed up at some points (esp in bread baking, they'd stomp it down), throw chalk and other adulterants like metal powders in it, and bake it in a dirty oven with unwashed hands, and placed in open fly-ridden air for display and sale. Also, olives are only mushy and rubbery now because freshly canned olives gave so many people deathly food poisoning in the mid-50s, that they now cook 'em in the can like tuna or shredded chicken to avoid another disaster.this-guy- reply
Many people know about the Suffragettes who won the vote for some UK women in 1918. Many people don't know that prior to 1918 men did not have universal suffrage. 1918 is also the date which non landowning men got the vote. Prior to that the vote had been only for wealthy landowning lords, just 5% of the population. Over a period of the preceding 80 years concessions were slowly made to allow more men, and then some women to vote.