#1 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Insurance. You give them money month after month, year after year, and then when it comes time where you need to use it they will try their absolute hardest to give you as little as possible

#2 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Healthcare not including dental and vision

#4 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Subscription services in vehicles. Pay monthly/yearly for heated seats or to unlock performance mode. I don't get how people support this business practice.

#5 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

I have to pay a 3% convenience fee to pay my rent online… I literally have to pay to pay my rent, it’s disgraceful.

#6 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Landlords buy up property they don’t need so they can sell it back at an extreme markup as rent to people who actually do need it. With almost any other commodity it would be called scalping, and be regarded as the scam that it is, but with a commodity so material we literally call it “real estate”, we just act like this is how things are supposed to be.

#7 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Ink cartridges

#8 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Apple.

#9 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Tipping

#10 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Charging subscription fees to access software on hardware you already own. "*Our customers pay for our over priced goods, but they appear to still have money. How can we make them buy the product every month without us having to pay to make or ship any new materials*!?"

#11 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Baby formula. There is NO reason it should cost that much.

#12 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

buying schoolbooks. publishers know you have literally no choice but to buy it and jack up the price in many cases. And some teachers get a cut on those sales which is insanely scummy but somehow tolerated in many schools. I’ve had classes where you had to pay 150$ for a book we didn’t even use once during the class, but you literally couldn’t do any of the online evaluations unless you bought it. It’s just a way for some company to make an easy 500-600 dollars or more off the back of students.

#13 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Organized religion

#14 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Overdraft fees. Tax on being broke.

#15 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Campaign finances

#16 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Capitalism . Working hard for peanuts so the people upstairs can get wealthy.

#17 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Temu, TikTok, Wish

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Paying the same price for digital games as physical. Digital should be muuuuuch cheaper.

#19 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Hospitals taking additional fees on so you have to constantly ask them to itemize it so they remove the bogus add one

#20 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

The whole system of Credit scores

#21 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Extended warranties

#22 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Every type of monthly bill going up year-on-year above inflation unless you change providers every year.

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The lottery Almost all other forms of gambling at least give you a reasonable chance of winning something. The lottery is straight up robbing the stupid

#24 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Political Parties.

#25 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Voting. We don't pick them they pick us. They draw the lines to better the chances for they're demographic. Gerrymandering it's a thing

#26 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

The supplement industry

#27 30 Scams That Are So Normalized That We Don’t Realize We’re Being Tricked

Very rich people having a "family trust" to evade inheritance tax

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Light bulbs. Apparently when first invented they lasted too long and so manufacturers had to reduce their longevity to make them commercially viable. Scam.