27 People Share The Biggest Scams In History That Are Still Up To This Day

hmmm sounds familiar...

You know what the rich need....more.

Streaming sites for the win ! (I'll give you some if you want)

My wife and I were lucky to find a rental store close to home that still rents. The options are limited, but it is still better than paying for upteen different sub services and then still not having options.

USA sure has a word to say at this topic ....

An abomination by any standard.

The stupidest version of this is paying in advance. Our local had that for a while - thankfully realised how dumb it was for something like A&E, where one has no idea how long it would be before being seen.

Never had to pay at a hospital, in Danmark I had to register my car and name the patient I was visiting, but only if I was staying more than two hours. Don't actually know how it works where I live now as I've only been to the A&E and that was free.

Please don't fall for this!if the dude in charge lives in a mansion, have private jets he only in it for the money.. et cetera!

I watched a late night evangelist last night..either that or an infomercial, meh. He was banging on about the evils of following Mammon aka. Money, it was all kinda true on the level that greed as an obsession really is a bad thing, and he was so passionate in his sermon....which ended with the need to buy this and that for your salvation and to donate so much to the church because it will come back to you tenfold....well, well, if it isn't hypocrisy served up on a plate. Evangelists = evil angels, EVERY TIME.

I can confirm that this is not true (the first part).

While I make decent for my age compared to my counterparts, I can confirm that even then it is still paycheck to paycheck at times, even though we rarely do anything considered lavish.

And an opaque name for the same thing is “neoliberalism”. Which is in no way liberal. It asserts that as long as the rich people are doing well and “the economy” is doing well, everything is fine. So prioritize commerce over all other programs, and treat people’s needs as optional. As long as you cover whatever arbitrary percentage is deemed “enough”, the people left out are ignored, and nothing else needs to be done.

People always mistake religious people with extremists. Religion is not bad in itself but the people taking it too far are : You're free to believe anything as long as you don't harm other human beings or try to impose your beliefs. (And when people think of religion they almost always thing of the big 3, Christian/Muslim/Jew when there are tons of other religions)

You can believe in something or not believe. It's your choice. It's not a scam.

Or, The health care system that requires you to have expensive insurance...

The notion that possession of wealth means that it was legitimately earned, as an axiom. It’s been drilled into us for so long that most people just accept it as some sort of natural law, and never question it.

Insurance isn’t necessarily as bad as some people think, although it absolutely can be. The original idea was that people shouldn’t experience financial hardship based on bad things happening that you know can happen but it’s incredibly difficult to save up enough just in case, and you can’t predict when or what bad things will happen. Just over two years ago, I “spent” roughly $10K trying to save a pet’s life. $1K came out of my bank account, the rest came from the insurance I paid every month for the entire 16+ years of her life. Not sure why but I tallied up how much I had paid for insurance for her, her litter mate and another pet who is now in his teens. Turns out I had paid slightly less over the years than the total paid out to provide healthcare whenever they were sick. Last year, the pipeline from city water mains failed, leaking water into my and my neighbours’ property. Fortunately, my house insurance covered $7K of the necessary repairs. I didn’t build the house but the fact the leak happened within my fence line made it my problem. It should never be a problem again and, yes, the insurance payout covers about seven years’ of insurance payments. That’s what insurance should be about. Never having to question if this essential care, repairs or whatever can be afforded. It’s expensive, not going to deny that. However, whenever my pets were ill, I never had to question if I could afford the best treatment available. I got the peace of mind to say, “whatever it takes that is in their best interest, you do that.” That’s why I have insurance.

Our bathroom leaked a couple of years ago. We had to lay £300 excess. Everything else was taken care of by the insurance. Including alternative accommodation. The premium for the year was about £350. Got all new flooring, bathroom tiles, plumbing etc. if we didn’t have it, we would have been screwed

If it's a group of kind hearted cat owner, VS a group of misogynistic hateful that wanna kill cats... 😿 but I guess that is jot what it meant. Just be kind and that all genders alike, kind to animal and nature we are all good!

"There but for the grace of God go I". A misunderstood saying, what it means really is that if you were born in different circumstances, you too would believe and act in sometimes terrible ways, we are no better just because we landed in some sort of privileged state through an accident of birth. In fact, we are WORSE, much, much worse, when we hoard that privilege and deny those that are suffering the same rights and resources we demand as our right.

Diamonds are expensive because people keep valuing it as such. With everything if we stop buying it, it'll lose value.

You need to vote better! Not for the corrupt that's in it for power and money.

Critical thinking should be taught in school from an early age.

Student loans

Our neolithic ancestors only worked 2 or 3 hours a day. And food was quite plentiful for them. Then they could do whatever they wanted the rest of the time.

This doesn't make sense. Politicians are extremely important. If yours aren't making any difference, you're electing the wrong ones. Ditto if they're making the wrong difference. The real scam is the claim that politicians don't really matter, which is a handy pass for the incompetent and corrupt.

The bank to my recently graduated cousin: take a credit card, it'll help your credit score. The same bank to my recently graduated cousin: credit cards are slow, take a loan to increase it quickly.

Rather unavoidable unless one takes very drastic action as a child.

What balance? lol

It's kinda like this, you walk into a bar and there is 2 gangs brawling. You nope out. You come back later and if you're lucky, the walls are still standing and you can peacefully have a beer. The earth may be damaged but what's left after the bullies and nasties all end each other is there for those who stayed as far as they could get from the hatreds and bigotries which brought the nasties down.

A reverse osmosis filter is much cheaper and more convienient than bottled water and you won't be getting as much microplastics!

Do you know what else was never originally here? Population 8 billion