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[โ€“] uralsolo@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

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.

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[โ€“] SBJ@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Cryptocurrency

[โ€“] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Car centric cities. Cities can and should be designed for people, keeping cars mostly out. The result is beautiful cities designed for people that make governments lots of money but the car companies will be earning a little less, ooffff

Make cities walkable, create actual safe roads for bikes, create 15 minute cities.

Look at the Netherlands, it damn works awesome

[โ€“] Thundernuggets@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Giving money to politicians.

[โ€“] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with this so much. Political parties should just be given one tv ad and one pamphlet. Only allowed to talk about their own policies and nothing else. Exclusively government funded. Any extra donations and you're no longer representing the people's interests so you're murdered or something idk.

[โ€“] bbigras@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Homeopathy?

competition. You like Brand A? and dislike Brand B? both are owned by C

[โ€“] Kotton@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Social media

[โ€“] Rom@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Full time work.

[โ€“] David_H@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Everything comes with a subscription

"Disposable" electronics

[โ€“] gruvn@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Paying for cellular data, in advance, regardless of whether or not you use it with no possibility of refunding any you didn't use.

[โ€“] Clipper152@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Individualism.

[โ€“] Pistcow@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] TheBaldFox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Commoditized bottled water.

[โ€“] obinice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Capitalism and religion, easily the top two scams.

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