Asklemmy

Land enclosure. Screwed everything up for everyone stg

Microtransactions in video games. Remember when everyone got pissed over horse armor?

Trading Card Games. The whole trading card thing is about psychologically manipulating you into buying shit you don't need, shoulda been stamped out as soon as cigarette companies started doing it, but if you think about it the ideal capitalist institution sells you literally nothing and selling people heavy paper with little pictures on it is damn close to that ideal.

Software. Should be free, isn't. Blame Bill Gates.

Advertising. We all know about propaganda (even though we might disagree on what is and isn't propaganda at times) and we all know it's bad, but we literally let rich people propagandize us every single day in every single orifice.

Penny auction apps like dealdash, they always have bots that will outbid you so you can never actually win one of their auctions. If you do win an auction, you're not actually guaranteed to ever the see the product you won.

Block chain - there's still no legitimate practical use for it

Car rental - I'm 95% sure I don't need any of those extra insurances but due to pressure and fear tactics (you do want to be covered if x happens, right?), it's hard to know in the moment.

Would be far easier to name things that are not a scam and assume the rest is just a scam in waiting.

Libraries, Pets, Sunrises/sets, Nigerian princes needing loans, Mr. Rogers

Everything else is probably looking to take money from you in some fashion.

Paying high subscription fees for Autodesk products

Real estate agents

Adobe

Resort fees, especially in Las Vegas.

Organized religion.

Nothing comes even remotely close.

Printers and printer ink

Everything comes with a subscription

Health insurance. Actually that probably doesn't really count since most of us know it's a scam.

Fashion

most cheap things that fall apart after a short time

College. The learning is fine, the cost is freaking out of hand. I never went and have no regrets. My daughter is going now and I feel like I'm supporting a scam.

Speculative economic instruments. There's a reason why specific items, such as onions in the US, have been banned from being essentially bet on.

Mass Surveillance.

Companies and governments alike have successfully convinced most people that they have "nothing to fear".

The mortgage.

Copyright

Patents