“Who Knows What They Put In These Things”: 30 Industries More Shady Than You Might Think

Like many businesses, the funeral biz does so well because enough people buy into the whole idea, they can pretty much name their price. And do. I'm not saying it's not predatory, but way too many people believe all of the trappings are necessary.

Creamate me and shoot my ashes in the general direction of the closest black hole. Who knows I may come out whole again on the other side. Closest black hole is about 1600 light years away but im willing to play the long game.

Grieving sometimes make you not to think clear and you want to do the best for your relatives, specially if the death is sudden and totally unexpected. Keep a wise and practical friend besides you and let them help you with decisions that have to be made . My friend lost her mom in an accident and was drained from all her downpay for a home casuse she only wanted things to be over and deal with her grieve.

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In many communities, even large ones, funeral homes are run by families who have been in the business for decades. We have 2 in our town. They’re trusted and a comfort. And unlikely to screw people over because that gets around. Corporate run homes are a different story though.

My youngest sister suddenly died last year. She was not only my sister but my best friend and soulmate. A tombstone costs around 2500 euros if you want anything that reflects your loved one. We don't have that kind of money. I made several plant baskets on her grave and fill them with the plants she loved. However, her sons (to whom I am a second mother) and I would so much love to have a proper tombstone on her grave. We miss her so much!

Human resources, like natural resources, are there to be exploited in corporate processes and the waste products disposed of as cheaply as possible. That's what the HR department is for.

The term "human resource" did not tip you off?

While they are there to protect the company, they do also help employees.

Nothing in the name would suggest otherwise, and who ever, in all of the years of Personnelle, HR or the new one "People Operations", has ever believed that their function was to help employees?

"Human Resources is neither human nor resourceful, discuss." Old SNL skit.

I work in shipping. Belgian environmental control asks for our booking lists well before loading ships that sail to Asia, look throught them for suspicious cargo, or suspicious senders of cargo, pick out ctrs for opening, and if found as waste instead of recycling material, they get sent back to where they came from. Had to send ctrs back to Canada which would originally sail from Canada to Asia over Antwerp. So yes, partially true, but not completely.

In the UK local authorities only have to publish the recycling volume collected not what was actually recycled, ie they can burn, bury or offshore it and still claim they're green.

Germany, Austria, Italy, France ... I have watched recycling bins get collected and see where they end up. It gets recycled.

Just seen a news report where I live about recyclable material and where it goes. The news report showed all recyclable material going to recyclable centers.

Ours goes about 7 miles down the road, we have a massive recycling processing centre there.

Project Genesis is what many college student are using to get free scanned text books that have had any copy protection removed. It is like Napster was for music. Yes it is illegal, but one has to get caught. So far the book publishing companies have not found a effective way to track those ebooks which have had copy protection stripped.

yeah and that the authors is payed per page does not make it any better, as it means that the books are a lot larger then they need to be as everything is basically written several time, first you get an introduction, then you get the content, then you get lots of examples of how it is apllied, then some test questions, then a summery, and then a conclusion.

Yes! College science professor here, I use OpenStax for my classes, have for several years. Very good free OER source

I went to college in the 90's and it was ridiculous back then. Do parents have to take out a 2nd mortgage to pay for books these days?

$500 intro to physics door stop

yeah it is especially bad when a doctor says that this patient needs this treatment, and then a student at the insurance company starts to dispute if it is really that nessesary. Running a privately funded healthcare system is really nuts, as "for profit" and "providing good quality" is in many cases interests that do not align very well.

We have a friend who's a nurse who tried to get into "utilization review" for an insurance company, because the hours and pay were better. I forget how long she tried to stick it out (pretty sure it was less than a year), but she was disgusted that the insurance company specifically directed her to either outright deny valid claims, or to approve them, but only for a cheaper procedure/device. Even when the doctor(s) said, "More Expensive Procedure/Device is better for Patient because Reasons, Cheaper Procedure/Device wouldn't be as effective," the insurance company insisted that they'd only approve the cheaper device/procedure, if the patient "insisted" on the more expensive one, they had to pay for it themselves. That annoyed her so much she went back to her nursing job.

It's a bit weird in Australia. With the floods in 2022 there were so many successful claims that all the insurance companies almost went belly up. The loans they needed to survive have pushed up insurance premiums across the board everywhere. So in national disasters the insurance companies are the ones that suffer. But in good times it is everyone else that suffers.

Read the fine print, people.

I've only needed my insurance once, after I was nearly killed in a traffic accident, and I experienced that the insurance company just wanted to make sure I got the correct payout, which I did, and that I so far has used to buy an apartment and a house for. But, luckily I live in Norway, where healthcare is free, so I didn't have to pay anything for the between six and seven months I spent in hospital and the about 18 months I received treatment after I was discharged.

Not any shadier than BitCoin et al. Fine art, paintings, are a great medium for making wealth transportable - at least that's the lesson we have learned from Nazi war criminals as they scurried from the collapsing Reich laden with looted paintings and diamonds to finance new secret lives over-seas.

They can use my washing machine for free, if they buy my paintings.

I used to work for a composer indirectly, you'd know him for many Broadway and West End hits. Anyway, he collected art just to make money from it, I remember he bought a Picasso for a record price in the 90's, he did it because he'd been collecting minor Picasso's and buying one at a record price pushed up the value of the minor ones by around 25%. He sold them all quickly and the profit made offset the record one.

Biden Hunter settled his child support payments with some of his paintings worth between $75k-500k.

Socialized medicine: wait a month to see a specialist doctor, pay zero. Capitalistic medicine: wait two months to see a specialist doctor. Sell your house to pay the bill.

Health is a commodity here, in the US. Capitalism is great! *sheepish smile with a thumbs up*

I'm Norwegian and some years ago I had to spend between six and seven months in hospital because of a car accident I was involved in, and I received treatment for about a year and a half after I was discharged, and because the Norwegian health care is covered by the government, I haven't paid a single penny for any of it.

I can't even afford the 20/80. Unless you are rich (millionaire) can afford 20% of a serious medical issue. Even, sometimes millionaires go broke. That is the awful USA. The poor get it free though. They need their slaves.

Non-profits in the U.S. have billions in the bank.

And in America hedge funds are buying the nursing homes, stripping the services and care to bare minimum to make their profit. People are then dying from not getting the care they need.