Lottery tickets, its everywhere. It gets shoved in my mailbox all the time. To me its just gambling but then with worse odds… How is it legal to market it so much?
Recycling being the responsibility of the consumer
And recycling most plastics. End up in a landfill because its cheaper than actually recycling them.
I think it is often simply burned to generate heat/electricity
Capitalism. The state. Cops.
Why did you say the same thing three times?
Work.
Inflation. The money you have is worth less every year by design. It’s a secret tax on all of us.
Tbf we should always aim for slight inflation. You want to incentivize people to use their money on things so it circulates, and it being slightly depreciating is the best way to do that.
If it was the best option long term to just stuff money into a mattress and sit on it for a decade then that has it’s own problems
The best inflation is zero. The second best is slight inflation. The third best is slight deflation. Because they can’t control it that well they aim for slight inflation so it doesn’t go negative.
“best way to do that” for who? corporate profits, or humanity?
Paying for education that “the market” wants us to have so they can have a larger pool of skilled workers, leading to lower salaries
Working harder instead of prioritizing.
Tax
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.
In most cases I agree with you, but what about a musician who makes passive income off of people streaming their music, or people who buy my fonts?
Cap it at the original 28 years after creation. The current 70 years after the creator’s death is ridiculous.
Why should you be paid in perpetuity for work you did once? I’d love it if someone paid me residules for the work I did today making widgets.
But how should a singer who produces an album, or an author who writes a book, or whatever be compensated? Its popularity isn’t really known until after it’s published, it’s not really fair for a damn good writer to get paid the same as someone who produces slop.
Not passive income, they did the work of creating the music or the font
subset of capitalism
Absolutely
Or you’re squeezing all the value and more out of the asset and users, while increasing externalities
Sounds cool til you realize the assets being squeezed are mostly just other people
No no no. I gave them CULTURE! A wonderful work culture.
And security! Sure, not the security I decided I need for myself, and it’s only really present as long as they’re profitable to me, but security nonetheless.
After all, I had the idea and stuck my neck out to secure the financing, which is far more important than the actual daily labor that keeps things running.
We’re like a family, see.
Using non-free (proprietary) software and believing we are free to do anything we want with the software. But we can do only what the app (the devs) let us to do. We can’t see or edit the code of program to run as we wish.
Capitalism
Liberalism
Insurance.
Insurance- paying for something you might never need but required to be available JUST IN CASE. eyeroll
Then you’re denied it regardless.
correction, you do an ungodly amount of paperwork prior to getting denied.
And if you die you lose everything you paid for and your family gets none. Sounds great!
The Dutch East India Company is still alive and well.
The stock market
Only if you don’t have insider info.
Ending a price in .99 so you think it is a whole dollar less.
I honestly don’t understand that, I have always rounded up for money going out and down for money coming in. So if I see something priced at $3.25 my brain thinks $4, and if I earn $3.25 my brain thinks $3 dollars.
Ive always thought it was due tax related reasons. In México, most shops have it set up so the price + IVA (our consumer tax) gives you a rounded number.
But it works! Supposedly. Don’t poke holes in the JC penney story.
That’s because it’s so normalized we don’t even realize it’s a scam anymore.
