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Dental care being treated as separate from health care.

You can die from teeth issues

Privatization of government institutions and programs.

Two party politics

Insurance

I moved to Chicago a few years. I go to rent an apartment. It has a "move-in" fee.

I'm like what's that.

Oh it's $500 that you don't get back.

I say. What about the deposit? They say. Oh yeah we don't require that. Isn't that great ,?

I'm like. So move in fee is my deposit but it's just guaranteed I won't get it back.

Them: well it's different. It's a move in fee. We don't require a deposit but if you don't clean out the apartment to this list of specifications, we will charge you per item you miss.

Example. Refrigerator not cleaned :$150 Floors not clean : $200

Etc.

So I was super unhappy about this and complained to anyone who would listen. To which my new Chicago neighbors and friends were like "that's how it's always been here,"

Bro. Y'all getting fucked. Hard. Non refundable deposit where you still have to clean out the old apartment.

Wtf. Should be illegal.

The real estate market. In many countries, the value of labor and materials necessary to build a house is about ~~30 to 40~~ 40 to 120 thousand euros. Everything else is speculation.

Edit. Initially I put 30 to 40 thousand euros.

Capitalism

Passive income. If value is being created and you're being presented some of it without doing any work it necessarily means that someone else isn't receiving the full value of the work they're doing.

Everything about cars from manufacturing, sales, insurance, repair, registration and taxes. We could just have Public transportation.

Ending a price in .99 so you think it is a whole dollar less.

Any form of gambling.

Console memberships: having to pay monthly to use the games I already paid for, on the console I already paid for, to access the internet I already pay for.

Subscriptions for everything. Especially hardware.

I already hate my always-online, have to use their shit app robot vacuum that gets worse after each update. I can't imagine buying a new, overpriced car these days and having it do all the same shit.

Recycling being the responsibility of the consumer

college textbooks. have to have the latest edition for class, but almost nothing is different from the two-years-old one.

Anything priced: $X.99

The stock market

Bottled water.

Insurance.

Health insurance

Paying for education that "the market" wants us to have so they can have a larger pool of skilled workers, leading to lower salaries

Private Equity

Credit Score

Derivitives

Interest on Loans

Money

Capitalism

Religion

Printer cartridges

Tipping

College / university in many countries.

In the US at least, its become such a parasitic industry, with tuition fees rising exponentially and far exceeding wage rates and job availability, that it accounts for a large portion of most people's personal debt.

With so many applicants for so few jobs, a college degree is the new highschool diploma / "minimum requirement" for nearly every job now. 1 / 4 US adults have student loan debt, with an average of 40k in student loans.. Nothing is putting the brakes on degree inflation, tuition, or the student loan industry.

The US federal government also makes a killing off of student loan interest fees, most of which is going to the MIC and Israel.

They've made the product they're selling you (a degree), both required, and extremely expensive; the ultimate goal of any parasitic industry. Its a dream for state and private colleges, the US government and its military, and a nightmare for people either without a job, or chained to their desks for fear of losing their job and getting further behind on loan payments.

Extended Warranties.

Free market capatalism

Capitalism

Capitalism

Private insurance companies

Health insurance

Scientific journals/publishers

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

Ban the entire business model.

Wage labor.

"Earning a living".

Working harder instead of prioritizing.

Dying.

Everyone thinks that you are supposed to go to the hospital when you are dying as if they are going to like, stop you from dying.

Mostly what they do is make sure that you don't leave anything behind for your kids to inherit as they spend a million dollars a day keeping you a miserable vegetable for a week.

Once that is done the funeral industry shows up to make sure that you dump the rest into buying a worthless box and digging a hole.

Oh you know... vaguely gestures at everything

Democracy.

This world is what people voted for? Yeah?

Fake elections, fake democracy. The president of USA is a puppet controlled by secret societies, and thats why nothing ever changes.

People cant even choose candidates. Everyone has to be rich to be president. Because money is what controls people. If you dont have that greed, you cant be controlled by the system. Thats why everyone powerful is rich.

Paying rent for land. Unfortunately it's been that way since feudalism and the progressive movements over the last few hundred years haven't managed to break out of it

Suburbia, and by extension big-box stores. Hell, the entire fucking American economy is a huge scam just waiting to permanently collapse.

Fees for leaving.

Being told to go therapy, instead of being told to burn down the oligarchy.