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What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by mastermind@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] an0nym0us@lemmy.dbzer0.com 116 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (103 children)

college tuition
housing
credit scores
for-profit healthcare
right to work legislation
rugged individualism/grind culture
voting (vote for the lesser of two evils...only two choices that are actually allies when the press isn't around to help them pretend to disagree on social issues)
taxes (I have no problem with taxation if democracy actually existed and our tax funds weren't being funnelled directly to the military industrial complex and corporate handouts without anyone having a say in the matter)
democracy (what the United States and British are trying to pass off as democracy is a complete sham)
sports (the distraction of the masses, anti-intellectualism incarnate)

[–] Whatsit_Tooya@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Was coming here specifically to say credit scores. Oh what’s that you paid off your student loans? Here have a big credit hit as a treat. Oh you’re using your credit? Here have a credit hit even tho you’ve never missed a payment. How dare you use the credit you have??

[–] tourist@community.destinovate.com 2 points 1 year ago

Even better if you use Experian: give us access to all your spending data or else you'll never see a score increase again (source: been dealing with this for three years while Equifax continues to go up. I feel like they're doing something illegal, but they probably already were and nobody cares.)

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