30 Things Which Are In Fact Big Scams, Yet Most People Don’t Realize It, As Shared By Members Of This Online Group

And considering how much of dental hygiene is good preventation.

Right! Tooth infections can spread to the heart or the brain. The US health care system is terrible when it comes to preventative health care -- but then I wonder if they really want it that way, so they can squeeze more money from everybody when things inevitably go south.

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

Most insurance haters don’t simply understand it. They wanna pay $20 a month and get their $20,000 hospital stay covered for free.

Exactly Something! The servers are undeniably the victims of this. Some customers refuse to tip because “tipping is dumb” but would rather complain and stiff the server than do anything to change things, and that leaves the server working for less than a living wage and the employer AND customer off the hook for compensating the people LITERALLY SERVING THEM. TIP YOUR SERVERS PEOPLE - while we work on getting them a proper wage, we can eliminate tipping once they’re paid enough. Oh, you guys are really angry about having to tip? It’s a lot like that “if you don’t vote, you can’t complain” mentality - if you’re complaining about being expected to tip servers so they can make a living wage, but you’re not standing up or saying anything, not writing letters to your gov and restaurant owners and voting for people and policies that can change this, then you can stop going to the restaurant, stop supporting that. Unless what y’all really care about is saving a couple dollars, in which case, maybe don’t enter an establishment where you will be waited on hand and foot and where you’ll be expecting them to do that for free because grocery stores and living rooms exist too. Rant over, just tired of this argument. If you’re not going to try to fix it, don’t just nonchalantly add to the problem because you can’t be bothered to cough up $4 to the person refilling your drinks and bringing you napkins and ranch all night. It’s nice that the customer can benefit themselves by saving a couple dollars by deciding tipping is a dumb practice - that’s very helpful to the server trying to put themselves through school at the only minimum wage job they can get without an education, or the single mom, or the average Joe/Jane just trying to make life work.

And forget about any benefits like health insurance. I didn't have any health coverage at all until I was like 30 and no longer working in the bar/food service industry.

That's basically how it goes now with donations, just a little less obvious.

They still do. You can buy a papal forgiveness for $$. ALL is then forgiven by the pope, you’re now spiritually clean.

Sale of Indulgences built all the enormous great cathedrals in Europe... and paid for a very comfortable lifestyle for the bishops & popes doing this... The Vatican was built by selling indulgences. The catholics still do this, but don't advertise it. You can give a bishop a pile of money to pray your sins away. Not sure if it works, but at least you tried. Big big donors get access to have an audience with the Pope.

In medieval times? Try to get married or baptize your child without paying and we will talk again about this

Yup. The originators of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt).

Indulgences. "As soon as gold in the basin rings / Right then the soul to heaven springs."

That's how the Reformation started, with Martin Luther's protests.

Paula White - Trump's religious advisor - literally did this just a few years ago. She quite literally sold indulgences.

Abrahamic religions in general. They all killed those who didn't believe like them. Catholics built residential schools and murdered many of my relatives.

But, did it work?

It works in some circumstances to increase group survival. Remember that Yahweh told the Hebrews, as they invaded Canaan to "kill every living thing" - first recorded genocide! "However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them – the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivitets and Jebusites – as the Lord your God has commanded you." - Bible Deuteronomy 20:16-18 Religion no longer provides any survival advantage, save to the clergy.

of course you buy religion. It does not pay taxes and yet it sits on public lands using public resources, so every tax paying citizen is paying for it. Also, you tithe right? And the priest/s ask for money all the time? Yes, you buy it. There are whole bookstore industries selling copies upon copies of rehashes of the same lies.

You need to look up "objective" and "logic". A scam is when you pay money for something that has no value. OBJECTIVELY - that is to say, without taking into account any particular subjectivity - all monies paid to any given religion are a scam. It's only SUBJECTIVELY that any given religion has value.

Amen!

Sorry --you BELIEVE IN GOD, but you PAY FOR RELIGION!

This! Because you can decide to skip wedding, death on the other hand....

There seems to be a new deal. They take the body and bring the ashes back after a couple of days, pre paid for about £1500. Money left to celebrate if the relatives wish or not. Suits me

All in good time. Let them enjoy their life together first.

They're the same, just one mouth less to feed.

That’s basically what mine was like. We only spent a few hundred dollars altogether.

The government doesn’t think people will be healthy enough to work at 70, but they’ve refused to make any corrections to Social Security. Therefore, we HAVE to work until 70 to get what we’ve been promised our whole working lives.

In Britain they are gradually increasing the retirement age. I was supposed to retire at 60, then it became 65, then 66, what will it end up at? Private pensions that should pay out 60 are hanging onto the money and paying no extra interest

in the usa - born in 1954 full retirement is 65. every year after that it increases 2 months. it has a ceiling of 67 . the amount of money you recieve is based on your 35 highest earning years. some kinda' formula. max i think is somewhere about $2200. while you are working they quit taking social security taxes out around $90k - hence, the cap. https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/planner/ageincrease.html

NPCs

Well that to me is a red flag. The whole social security fund is about to collapse and they are trying to delay that collapse by pushing out the retirement age. It went from 65 yrs to 66.5 now. And now 70? 😬 Not a good sign.

I worked full time voluntarily until I was 70 and am very glad I did. It gave me more time to save for my retirement, which I’m now enjoying muchly,

The government wants us to die before we get to collect. If not, why can't we leave our social security benefits to our families?

70+?? Wow, just wow.