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They say it’s always best to trust your gut. But what if it tells you there’s something off with a particular person, place, situation, you name it? Today, we are diving into some hard-to-believe scenarios shared by people with very strong suspicions. The only catch is that they have zero proof of the conspiracies.

What do you strongly suspect but have no proof of?” asked u/757jsmith on the r/AskReddit subreddit and the answers started rolling in.

Let’s scroll through the most interesting ones below, and who knows… sometimes life is stranger than fiction!

#1

35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove Religion was created to control the masses.

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Linus Nilsson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe todays religion, but from the beginning it was simply a way to explain things we didn't understand.

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove Our ancient (human) history is far more vast and impressive than we can even begin to imagine.

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove Suspect my Physically and mentally abusive ex husband was planning on offing me during our separation/divorce. He got a $75,000 life insurance policy on me during our separation. Found out 2 years after our divorce when he had overpaid the policy and the insurance sent me a refund check. Mistake on their part.

During our separation, he had invited me to join his “family” vacation at Grand Canyon, I said no. He invited me to the mountains that same summer to try to be a family again, I said no. Then he invited me to Mexico for “reconciliation, again no. ( I said no because the gut feelings I had and my mom told me not to) She had 3 dreams in a row that my soon to be ex husband would tell her I was dead.

I have no proof, just the insurance policy and my mom’s dreams. 2 years after divorce, he canceled policy. I didn’t know you could get insurance on someone without them knowing

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove Woman's clothes have either no pockets or crumby pockets to promote handbag sales.

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Bobert Robertson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've heard this one so many times, but I've always wondered then why there aren't more companies that make both pants and hand bags.

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove The Kardashians usually wear solid colored clothing because it’s easier for them to photoshop

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove That the universe is teeming with life. Earth just can't be that special.

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Johnny Rodriguez
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ooor, there have been lots of planets like the earth before, maybe with higher developed civilisations like us, but their galaxy exploded in a supernova billions of years ago like it will happen to our galaxy. Maybe some of the black holes only exist because some alien experiment went horribly wrong. The universe is so big and so old and so crazy-for me, everything is possible..

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove That the developed world would function just fine if people were paid the same salaries, but worked only 3 days a week instead of 5. I strongly suspect the elite and governments want us working as much as possible so we don't have enough free time to cause unrest and improve society in a way that would negatively affect them. After all, since machines and factories have automated most forms of manufacturing, so why are we working as many (or more) hours as people from 150 years ago?

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DDmaybeandor
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For those saying it's unrealistic, this sort of mass shift; please let me draw your attention to history. There were people who were certain the economy couldn't stand paying former slaves, allowing women into the work force, cutting back from 80 hour work weeks to 40 hour work weeks, not allowing children to work, and I'm sure there's more. The proposed idea would be a major shift but it's not unrealistic or outright impossible. I'd love to hear some economists debate the feasibility.

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WillemPenn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll add that our ancient forebears -- hunter gatherers -- worked less than 20 hours a week and devoted the rest of their time to leisure activities. The move to an agrarian society lead to longer hours, shorter lives, poorer health and reduced satisfaction with life.

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Joe Reaves
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Several businesses have experimented with switching to 4 day weeks. Pretty much all of them have experience increases in productivity.

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Nikki Sevven
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When the 40-hour work week was first initiated, 40 hours was supposed to be the maximum, not the minimum.

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Jeff K
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Worker productivity in the US has increased over 60% since 1979, but wages have only increased 17.5% since then. In other words, people are producing the equivalent of 24 hours more per week than a 40-hour week in 1979. A 3-day week would be a shift but is likely economically feasible; we've made a choice to turn that extra productivity into cash (mostly for employers) rather than time.

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Shayda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine the amount of people who already consider volunteering but can't because they have to make ends meet? If we could be paid a livable wage and not have to work as much or as hard to where we're physically and mentally exhausted, just imagine. All the beach/forest clean ups we could do. Volunteering at orphanages and hospitals. Just a thought.

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renee brack
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is me. I would do so much more for my local community and make travelling purposeful holidays volunteering abroad - if I wasn't participating so full time in a post capitalist economy.

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Pamela Blue
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Only in North America. In Europe, they are switching over to a 4 day workweek. It already has in several countries after a trial showed that production went UP working one less day a week. They also force their employees to take a month's holiday every year.

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François Carré
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is more than a suspicion, to be honest. It has been well documented and argued that nowadays' bad working conditions and massive unemployment do not have any economical justification, they are just political choices that have been made in the last 50 years, and their purpose is exactly what you said.

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Bob Belcher
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hell, I'd be happy if America just gaurenteed vacation days for all, at least 4 weeks a year. Or even trusting it's employees to work from home. I have an MBA and a white collar job, but we're still required to be in the office even now because "executives are concerned productivity will decline". So in other words, we dont trust you to make smart choices even though we hired you for this job because you made smart choices.

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Edison Michael
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Peasants during the Middle Ages worked so much LESS than modern employees! Sounds strange to think about that, but it is true.

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El muerto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

modern workplace economy is base on unemployment, and the fear of loosing your job to the people that don't have one. practically we have too much people and no enough work for all...the other part is that a few people get higher pay for less work than those who have the higher workload. an office worker spend a third of their time at work actually working, because the time is inefficiently used...more basic jobbs, the jobbs that keeps society running, drivers, food servers, cleaning stuff and many more are usually overload with work and underpay. in actuality, society depends on people that earns a tenth of what you pay the minority with high pay and low work load (not counting millioners). but, the high pay people could get anything without the underpay worker. much can be automated...but modern work politics depends on keeping people unemployed, to bring wages down. people are less willing to ask for more if they fear that somebody else is going to taker their jobb

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Anders Hernandez Kristiansen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not all work with computers and sale, this would not work in the health sector. I work in mental health and addiction, these people are reliant on people that know them are available when they need us

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Luchian Alex
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A bunch of countries are introducing a 4 day week on a large scale, like Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, and on a small scale even more countries do it. It was observed that revenue for the companies involved is basically the same or higher (with lower costs in utilities) in most cases and the mental health for the workers is at an all time high.

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Lisa Chambers
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do a study on elementary classrooms and how they are set up. In long rows, set up like a factory.

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Wim Cossement
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The more we work, the more profits for the owners/bosses/shareholders. It's that simple...

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Lynn Morello
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can work 4 days a week at a paid job and still come home to house work and gardening. That stuff never takes a day off.

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Courage the Cowardly Dog
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a possibility that in the near future conglomerates (read tech/software billionaires) will be paying people just to sit at home. That way, you're fat and lazy and you will still use the money to buy gadgets and subscriptions (most of which you don't need).

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Dave Kool
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't break out the tin foil, this isn't a conspiracy theory it's a pragmatic fact; If you're too busy working your ass off then you're too busy to realize just how shitty your situation is because you're too focused on just survival, or you're trapped in your job because your boss knows you literally can't afford to quit, and the irony there is that people don't quit jobs, they quit their MANAGER. Normally this would be where someone would say "WAKE UP SHEEPLE" but I know better than to waste my time doing that.

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jpaul
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i sincerely think more equity in salaries, and less work hours is human future. but in the same time i don't buy the rich conspiracy thing. i mean the richs are like us no more, no less, and certainly not evil minded. i also think the problem is more complex, and people before making statements about how easy the fix is, should tell clearly what the solution should be

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Nilo Baranda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ask any small-scale entrepreneur whether he's just a Taco truck operator or a branded shoe retailer if he's willing to grow his business for the same working hours and compensation he pays his employees.

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Seabeast
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Up to a point. There was no machine that would do the construction drawings for the engineering projects I used to draft for. We'd put in overtime to rush them out for client review, then put it in again after they made their markups.

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yeciye
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wouldn’t we end up with 40% less production? Wouldn’t that result in a corresponding price increase? I’m sure it’s possible to design a society that would work like this. But I don’t see how current developed world would function “just fine”.

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Luchian Alex
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/06/iceland-four-day-work-week/

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Moodles
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Communism then OP?! I think that's been tried already. Corruption will always win

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Moodles
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah! I think I misunderstood you OP. I can see you meant the same salary for less hours rather than same salary for all. My apologies

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember reading somewhere that these hours and cheap pay were set for working men during the industrial revolution because they needed as many people as could help for the boom in available jobs. The long hours was also meant for husbands who had kids so that the wife could be home all the time and the kids were looked after while the husband made all the money. It was not meant for single people, married with no kids, partners, single mothers, or single fathers. But people are reluctant to change the hours or the pay. Now im not entirely sure why they won't change. Maybe they hate us, maybe they aren't as aware as they should be about how much it really affects us.

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Pheeb Carter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think maybe they think that we as the new generations are just snowflakes, or pathetic because nobody in the past had complained about it, because it worked for them. People now are complaining because it doesn't work, and they know there are other options but those in charge think we're just being lazy because there's never been previous complaints about it. That we're the problem

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They keep saying we have an upcoming disaster because the younger population is going to need to support a larger older population. This ignores the fact that production per manhour has been multiplied several times in the last few decades. I suspect deliberately. Compare the sale value of what you make to your salary, and if you are not producing at least 100 times what you are paid then you are in a do-nothing job, corporate busywork babysitting.

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Dario Li Causi
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

On this matter I suggest to do some research on “the venue project”

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Rick
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is just unrealistic. So you work 3 days a week but on the 4 days you have off do you just not do ANYTHING? Or is it one of those ideas where you think corporate and office jobs should be worked 3 days a week yet still expect emergency services, shop workers, delivery drivers, doctors, nurses, childcare services, callcentre operators, trash disposal workers, street cleaners, repair services, taxis etc to be available 24/7? Presumably schools would be open 3 days a week too, or would teachers and school staff still have to go in for 5 so you can enjoy your extra days off?

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meblablaing
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How about everyone only works 3 days a week and in jobs that require permanent attendance there is 3-day-shifts and shared positions.

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Christopher Duffy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The great promise of free market economics was that it would lead to less work through ever increasing efficiency. The reason this is unthinkable in the US is that they have never had a free market economy (which necessarily allows workers to have collective bargaining power). They are a feudal economy fuelled by calvinism and a press owned by plutocrats.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I work at big grocery store, were open 7 days a week 7AM to10PM, people are mad when we are closed for some holiday atc. I cannot imagine what would they do if we have open only every other day :D

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Joey Marlin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That isn't the theory. You would be open every day just staffed by other people. Affordable because all salaries are equal. This 'works' because all our needs are equally met. All employed, all working less, all working for the same money. That is the theory. I am not saying it would work in practice.

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Kim Lionessa
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is true for the managerial class and most office workers. But if you are actually manufacturing products, the boss would have you work 90 hours a week if labor laws allowed.

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Greg Witkiewicz
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope. Nothing so sinister. Simply put, various ranks of managers just think that more time in the office = more stuff gets done = higher profit as if humans were machines with constant levels of productivity. Don't attribute to malice something that can be explained by management stupidity.

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Troux
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"since machines and factories have automated most forms of manufacturing, so why are we working as many (or more) hours as people from 150 years ago?" Those machines were made to produce more, not to work less. This logic is flawed.

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LivingTheDream
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe in a corporate keyboard/paperwork world. This does not fly in the skilled trades sector.

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HellVetios
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sure. Double the staff that a supermart, for example, needs. And then cry because the prices of food doubled too.

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Suz66
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is it fair that a doctor gets paid the same as another job after the doctor went through 12 years of school? Communist countries have tried this, there's no reason to excel at anything meaning cures for diseases (for example,) would never be made. There has to be incentive. There should be some limits though for some things, like pharmaceuticals.

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WillemPenn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

BTW, your notion that people must be financially motivated to create is specious. Edward Jenner invented the very first vaccine (for smallpox) simply out of the pursuit of knowledge, and Salk invented the polio vaccine for the public good. Furthermore inventors do not get rich off of their inventions -- the corporations they work for do. Those corporations are very grateful to you for believing and perpetuating their propaganda.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You suspect wrong, and my guess is you have a job that is not essential.

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ThePracticalSarcastic
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hahaha! have you tried getting anything accomplished with a company that has home-based customer service reps lately? It's supposed to be 'more productive' and 'efficient' but takes 10x longer...people don't even answer the phone anymore smdh!

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because of all those who don't work, and receive benefits just for existing.

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Sorry, but this makes no sense. It's one of those things that "sounds" good on the surface but once you start analysing it, it falls apart.

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove All those “questionnaires” and “create your X name” things on Facebook are created by people hoping to data mine secret question answers to steal your identity or bank info.

Your stripper name is the first car you owned + The street you grew up on.

Yo dummy, those are the secret questions to your bank account!

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove Cats can understand our words, but do not care. They are waiting for a moment to speak, but since we are so far beneath them it hasn't happened yet.

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There’s no sales on Black Friday. It’s just hyped up and people don’t do the research. Something could have been on “sale” earlier in the year for the same price, but people flock to the stores on Black Friday and buy it immediately because in their mind... it’s the cheapest it has ever been.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is true. A study confirmed it. But people are so dumb that they fall for it every single year. Fighting each other in the aisles. Sometimes it's embarrassing to be a human.

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That the "unsubscribe" method in spam emails, calls or texts are really just a way of confirming the number is attached to a real person.

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove That a lot of businesses in my hometown are just money laundering operations. 25 nail salons in a town of 70,000? 3000 square foot DVD rental shop in the best block of downtown where commercial rents are very high? Dozens of $10 barber shops sitting empty all day but remaining open? Red flags all around.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! I always think this, like how can they make a profit, and afford to pay all of their overheads?

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove That my oldest brother is actually my bio father.

It just makes no sense to me otherwise. I have a butt chin and no one else in my family does. This older brother was(is?) an alcoholic, drug addict, and just a big mess all around. He brought different women to my parent's house every day and we would hear them f**k. It makes no sense to me that he came out of that with zero children. Makes less sense since he's ~20 years older than me, which means my parents would have had me at a dangerously (for my mom) old age. I know it's not impossible, but it just makes a lot more sense this way. Plus my parents always covered up for his wrongdoings so it honestly wouldn't surprise me.

I once asked my mom and she got visibility upset. Didn't even ask her outright, I just said I had a dream that they told me my brother was really my father. She got super mad and refused to even discuss or acknowledge my dream. Weird as hell.

I would still consider my mom, my mom. Wouldn't consider my brother my dad if he were because he's an ass. It's just something I think is highly probable.

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#14

Every episode of every reality show is either tightly scripted, or at least framed and re-shot so the producers can get the right amount of drama on the screen.

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Rick
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Literally says before or after most of those shows: “Some scenes have been created for entertainment purposes only”.

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove In my city something bad is about to happen.

I see a lot of mansions on sale, and houses with good location too. I think rich people know something that the rest of the people don't.

Pretty paranoid, sorry.

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WilvanderHeijden
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not that paranoid. It's called "insider knowledge" and rich people hold often the position where they are informed about plans that could affect their properties. So it could be that soon you'll find that some very polluting industry is building a new plant right across the street because it suddenly has been designated as "industrial area".

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove Queen Elizabeth will probably live up to 120 years and longer. She is one of the best fed and most cared person on Earth.

If we invented something for immortality, she likely took it already.

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove That only about 20% of people actually do any work. The rest just get by looking busy.

Limp_Distribution , Marcus Aurelius Report

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I believe that many animal rescues self-perpetuate their own problem. Some rescues have VERY picky requirements - like salary minimums, yard size minimums, prior experience, age minimums, required seminars, required volunteer work, etc. Meanwhile you can just go to a breeder or a store, and be able to get a pet that day.

I understand wanting to make sure the animals go to a home equipped to care for the animal, but if it's so hard to get a rescuee pet that it drives people to stores, then those shelters will only ever become more crowded. A parrot rescue near me requires 6 months of volunteering for 3 hours every week before you can adopt... and there's a store nearby that just breeds and sells parrots. Which one would most people pick?

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Ember
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I couldn’t agree more with this! Plenty of people would love to adopt a cat or dog but live in a flat/apartment and are discounted immediately. I’ve never understood why having access to a garden is deemed more important than a loving home with people who care. Here in the UK many people would love to take on a rescue pet but are stumped at this first hurdle. It would be ok for me to have a baby in that environment but not a dog/cat?!? How does that make sense to anyone?

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I believe my grand mother was a serial killer. She was married 7 times; each ending in a sudden death. She died in the 1980’s but everything is still suspicious and no one seems to know anything. I did find an article about her when she came to the US where her first husband died defending her after her ex-boyfriend climbed in her window in New York City. I also found evidence of her having been in prison before coming to the US.

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That a relative is a CIA agent. She was in the Peace Corps, Vietnam era. Ever since she's been a "world traveler," somehow able to drop her work and "go hiking the Spanish version of the Appalachian Trail" or otherwise go to exotic locales. Sometimes she came back with injuries, "I fell as we were climbing some rocks." Her son is in the agency as an employee, not a spy, and he's married to a CIA translator.

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove Prince Charles will never sit on the throne. I believe he made a deal with Queen Elizabeth that in exchange for being allowed to marry Camilla he gave up his right to sit on the throne. Prince William will sit on the throne when Queen Elizabeth dies.

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove That Bath and Body Works has like, 13 unique scents. Every couple of months they just rotate the scents in and call them something else.

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#23

35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove Starbucks baristas intentionally spell your name wrong so you take a picture of it and post it on social media to give the company free advertising.

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove Historians +200 years from now will be able to look at all of all of the private messages and data of people who have been long dead.

Similar to how we can read private letters of people from 1700’s.

mikenasty , Karolina Grabowska Report

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Giovanni
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Historians +200 will have an hard time getting useful informations, they'll have to dig through terabytes of shitposts and memes

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove Some zoos have empty exhibits and just claim the animal is in there, you just never see them.

sakura_wayne , BrokenSphere Report

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove I think my great great uncle was gay, but lived in a time where he had to hide that part of himself. He never had a wife or kids. He traveled a lot and was very into art. I asked my grandma a while back if she thought he was gay and she said he just wasn't interested in having girlfriends.

thirty-seven37 , Mykyta Martynenko Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

because he was interested in having boyfriends, wink wink nudge nudge say no more say no more

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove That my five month old knows exactly when I’m about to fall asleep and starts crying just to screw with me.

ZyuMammoth , Laura Garcia Report

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove I believe that apple never actually intended for anyone to buy their $999 monitor stand. It was just an excuse so they could invalidate all warranty claims for the Pro monitor.

"We can't approve your claim due to the use of improper 3rd party equipment".

Joeysaurrr , The Default Project Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apple products are horrendously overpriced, but usually don't provide any extra functionality over non-Apple products (and sometimes they're actually less functional).

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove That your phone and laptop mics are hot and sending data to certain groups.

JimmyL2014 , Karolina Grabowska Report

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove That my English teacher didn't read essays, and based grades on how we were in class.

MaterialImportance , Anna Shvets Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of my professors used the so-called "stair system". He would pick up all the papers, stand at the top of a staircase, then toss them forward into the air. The step that a paper lands on determines the grade :D

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35 People Share Things They Are Really Suspicious Of But Can't Actually Prove Mattress stores are a money laundering scheme. No one buys that many mattresses.

One_dank_orange , pxhere Report

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That every single person who has submitted their DNA to their ancestor sites has officially damned themselves. That’s like giving away all the passwords to your devices. Our DNA is our coding, it is what builds us. If someone for some reason wanted that information for any reason that would likely ignore the integrity of bioethics, they could get to it. Rich person will die within 2 days without a kidney transplant? They could easily pay someone to check the database to find an individual who could potentially be the closest match. That person would have also submitted where they live. It would be pretty convenient for that person to randomly get terribly injured and be taken to the hospital where the rich person happens to be at. I know it sounds crazy, and there are 100 less crazy things people can do with out data. But with body autonomy rights starting to be taken away by some states, it’s essentially the government saying they own the rights to your body, it’s just not that obvious...for now. Y’all wait. Y’all mark my words.

Cmen6636 Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep! I will never willingly give away my DNA and I think it's utterly crazy that anyone does. Those ancestry sites make it all look so fun and interesting but there is something sinister about them. I just know it! In the same vain, I'd never have one of those Alexa (or similar) spybots in my house.

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That companies (such as smartphones companies) are holding back their best technologies waiting their competitors to release something new so they release something a bit better but not the best they can do

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That Earth has been visited by one or more advanced civilizations, and may even be watching us stealthily.

DarthContinent Report

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe the whole Christianity thing is records of aliens walking on our planet. Think about it. The kingdom in the skies, Jesus' miracles and his superior knowledge, his resurrection -> ascending to the sky -> not reappearing for ages.... It sounds like this ruler of a kingdom called Heaven sent his son to go explore planet Earth, he had bad experiences with our rather barbarian ancestors, went back home and doesn't want to come back.

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