cold calling.
also robo-calls.
Societal expectations to move out of your parents’ house when you turn 18. It’s a scam to get you to become more profitable to corporate America. You’re an adult now. You need to buy a car you can’t afford, get a mortgage you don’t want, insure it all to protect the bank, all to go to a job you don’t want, but now need so that you can afford these “nice things.”
But if you stay with your parents, even if you actually enjoy it, you’re a failure.
Windows
The stock market. It’s not investment, it’s gambling. It’s also rigged by the power brokers and insider traders.
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
Ah, no, you see, what you’re actually referring to is “energy recycling”. See, doesnt that greenwashing sound so much better?
It’s how Norway from memory tops the recycling league
“Thermal reuse” or “thermal utilization” is how its actually called.
Ohhh, this one 100 times. That nonsense about consumers’ plastic straws killing all the ocean’s turtles while only contributing 0.03% of all plastic pollution to the ocean, whereas commercial fishery nets constitute nearly 46% of the Pacific Garbage Patch was one of the biggest industry psyops of all time, and people fell for it hook, line and sinker (no pun intended).
This. I have opinions on waste management, please indulge a little rant, if you will?
In my city they also now have us pay for the privilege of dumping residual waste. It’s worth noting that residual residential waste is stuffed into a silo - the users bring it to a collection point, and open it with an RFID key card. You’re sent a bill for each time this is opened.
It’s also worth noting that the plastic bin, if it looks like they can’t sort it, they will toss it in general waste.
These factors combine into a situation where:
- Tossing things in the recycling bin has it end up in gen waste anyway
- It’s cheaper for the end user to dump their residual waste inappropriately, either by stuffing it into recycling despite not going there, or by dumping it in the bushes somewhere
Imo, fixes would include the following:
- At the very least, using the general waste silo should not come with extra costs
- Recyclables and residual waste should be merged into a single waste flow, which is to be recycled in general.
- We should make work of actual plastic recycling at a commercial scale.
Expensive tips, already calculated into the bill.
Tax filing companies. Individual taxes are pretty straightforward in most cases. Our tax laws are just completely screwed up.
Health insurance and tax information can easily be handled by the government.
Car finance. It’s so prevalent, I think I’m literally the only one on our road that doesn’t drive a 1 year old, brand new, financed car. Literally everyone is like “but it’s only $499/month and I can just hand it back when I want a new one”. Well shit, yes, but try tallying up what you’ve paid for running all these new cars every three years.
Save up instead and continue saving after you bought the car. Then you can afford a different car later.
They call it “leasing”, but get angry when you point out they are renting.
It’s literally like renting a car at $499 per month. Nothing really wrong with that as long as the economics work out (there’s more expenses than just the monthly payment), because a car is going to depreciate anyway. You can buy it, but it will just get old and fall apart.
Some people feel it’s worth $500 a month to always drive a relatively new car, rather than drive an old car for free.
Some people feel it’s worth $500 a month to always drive a relatively new car, rather than drive an old car for free.
Some people are broke ass in debt their whole lives.
Yeah, I’m not saying it’s economically wise, but it’s true, and who are we to judge what people prioritize in their lives?
It’s going to depreciate!? Oh no! Often the people I hear talk about cars like that can’t or don’t change their oil. Change the fluids, rotate the tires, follow servicing time tables; same things you should be doing with your rented car you continue doing with your older car.
Obviously, you can maintain your old car, and make it last a long time, but it’s still going to look older, maybe dented and scratched, the finish is dull, the interior is worn, etc. Some people don’t want to go through all the maintenance, and would rather just pay to have a nice looking reliable car in the driveway.
I’ve never been a car guy, so I like an older, paid off car, but I understand why some people would want to follow the other strategy.
Save up instead and continue saving after you bought the car. Then you can afford a different car later.
religion
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.
subset of capitalism
Absolutely
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.
Even 15 years is a lot of money for something you most likely spent under 6 months creating. Of course, we could always have a detailed system and not just one flat time frame.
I think people overestimate how much the average creator can get from their work over time. They need to keep creating to maintain a livable income. Also, 28 years is a good number because it prevents mega corporations from stealing from small creators. Imagine if some novel series becomes a big hit, but Disney or Warner Brothers could just adapt it whenever they pleased without paying the author.
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
Doesent all passive income require some upfront work outside of investing?
If you inherit/“born rich” I don’t think so…
No, that’s what makes it passive. Having money isn’t a job, investing isn’t work it’s gambling and extremely rigged.
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.
Even if the assets aren’t people, not squeezing value is required to maintain some fun and life as well as long term sustainability. If you squeeze it, you might squeeze it dry. I hate all the adverts everywhere. Can I just go somewhere to save my eyes…
40 hour work weeks
Insurance, private utilities, the internet, phones, etc.
Paying for education that “the market” wants us to have so they can have a larger pool of skilled workers, leading to lower salaries
Credit card “points” and travel miles. The only “points” that matter are the dollar. (or whatever currency)
basically everything,i guess.
Ja
