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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Any product peddled by a megachurch (see the Baker bucket for a great example)

Some megachurches have sold freeze-dried prepper food. It's not a grift per se, because it's perfectly edible freeze dried food, but it's overpriced for what you're getting.

[–] franzfurdinand@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

You're right, but I was thinking of the buckets that are basically terrible quality slop that's borderline inedible.

I might still call it a grift because they're asking for payment as "donations" to skirt paying taxes on them. That, and like you said, it's not a great value for what you get. Maybe not pure snake oil, but there's definitely still enough dishonesty involved imo that I'd be comfortable calling it a grift.