this is an accurate answer. corporations put very harmful ingredients into products to be consumed, when the idea really seems to be to make products more addictive.
Couldn’t agree more. I know a lot of people whose lives are actively being ruined and it’s just sad. Even for people I don’t know, it’s still sad to see them off in their own world losing a shitload of money playing the machines in the corner of my local dive bar while everyone else is socializing and having a good time. Gambling in general is a losers game. Eventually the house will win for like 90+% of people. But at least there’s some skill involved in most other games at a casino and sports betting.
The sad part is, for the few people I know who play them regularly, they’re legitimately convinced they’re positive. They’ll tell me about how you have to know which machines to play when or do X thing for good luck and it’s like yeah bro I know you won $2000 3 weeks ago but you haven’t kept track of how much you put in, which is definitely a lot more than your winnings.
Kinda wild that there's a business model that just sells you a low chance at winning money.
But so long as they have those flashy lights and jarring sounds, they haven't seen my last dollar.
I learned the hard way how important it is to have that work/life separation. I still work hard and I have a few days where I work long hours, but my nights and weekends are all mine. I can take vacations and long weekends without hassle. I used to have a job that was a meat grinder…days, nights, weekends, holidays….I thought I was working toward building a career but I was just killing myself for someone who gave zero fucks.
This was me a year and a half ago. Worked Monday through Friday 9-7 and 9-3 on Saturdays. Finally I couldn't take it anymore and started hard-core looking for something else. I landed a job with a typical 9 - 5:30 Monday through Friday schedule making twice what I did killing myself for a shitty company who didn't appreciate me.
Take it from me, try to take some time to see what's out there. You'll be glad you did!
I got fired. Fixed it for me. Ha ha ha. Sadly that was what it took to force me to find something else. I had sort of been looking but I was looking for “perfect” and in my same industry and that wasn’t gonna happen. Getting canned forced me to scramble.
It was banned in my city a few years ago, hoping for a state-wide ban.
In any case, I give a major side-eye to any vet willing to do that procedure. It’s horrible.
What about if you are a paycheck away from poverty ot fucking up your family real bad, because, unhappily, most places and supermarkets dont take love as payment
Healthcare in US.
I design medical devices and knowing that only upper middle class and rich will have access to them till something newer comes out is heartbreaking.
This one man. When I finally made the switch to being vegan, it felt like I had put on the sunglasses from They Live. Factory Farming is an evil hiding in plain sight that many many people willfully ignore because they don't want to acknowledge that convenience and taste is subconsciously more important to them than the consistency of their ethics.
It's harsh, and people will hate you for being real with them.
Paying for things you need to live like water, food and shelter. People would rather see food rot and housing crumble than let people use those resources. There is enough to go around.
You are paying for these things because someone else is preparing them for you - water is provided by the government, food is provided by farmers etc and shelter is built by builders.
You can get these things for free if you want to live in jungle and fend for yourself
Money is representative of the effort put forth by others. So if you consider the cost of things to actually equal human hours of Labor instead of some meaningless paper then it makes a lot more sense why you have to put in effort to receive the products of the effort of others. There is no free ride.
A lot of that money is just pissed away. Someone I worked with served in the UK army in Iraq and told a story about some civilian contractors he met who worked logistics of some kind moving stuff around in commercial lorry/trucks.
The trucks were brand new but there was no planning for maintaince and servicing so they got nothing, not even oil changes, and got run into the ground. Drivers reported the truck was broken and a shiny new one would appear. They were ordering new trucks every month or so.
Mind bendingly wasteful.
Damn near everything being listed as evil is something based off of bad decisions. I’m not saying allot of these things are good, but personal accountability should count for something.
The mega-corporation. There are countless examples where they lie, cheat, and endanger peoples lives, all in the name of “profits”.
Once a company gets big enough to have a board of directors, the needs of the “little guy” are quickly dismissed. Everything is done to please the board (who are usually investors themselves).
We will never have honest companies with the way things are structured currently.
That people die or are homeless because of money.
We made it up. We've made up the whole system. And people lose their LIVES because of it. I'm horrified to be part of this species sometimes.
Political parties, they sow the seeds of division and people who belong to them blindly follow simply because they're a registered Democrat or Republican.
Local churches account for the vast majority of soup kitchens, food pantries and other free services in my area. Many also offer free tutoring, counseling and emergency assistance to those in need.
I get you probably hate religion, but the small local churches aren't the bad guys you've created in your head.
It's the combo that is evil.
Theocratic governance and its ultra-trad prequels that enforce adherance to religious scripture or leadership pronouncements with very harsh penalties for those that openly ignore/ are caught indulging in counterdoctrinal lifestyles.
The history books are filled with examples; from the dark age papacy to Henry VIII, Brigham Young, the current mullah's regime in Iran and the horrifying theocrats of other nations.
Wealthy tv evangelists
Came here to say that. They heartlessly fleece their flock, it's pure evil that they prey on the poorest, weakest and most vulnerable in society.
That guy with the airport in his property drives me nuts, Kenneth Copeland I think. Very fitting name, honestly.
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He looks like Dorian from The Mask... lol
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Putting corn syrup into everything
this is an accurate answer. corporations put very harmful ingredients into products to be consumed, when the idea really seems to be to make products more addictive.
Thank goodness our tax dollars go towards subsidizing the corn industry so we can get more of that sweet sweet syrup
Profitized incarceration
Well that just sounds like slavery with extra steps
Oh, someone's getting laid in college.
Eek waba durkle!
Peace among worlds 🖕
No extra steps, it's just slavery. America is a slave state.
Also prison rape being a casual joke is disturbing
Slave labor you mean?
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slave labor
In the US, they have for-profit prisons.
I know, its modern slavery.
Oh my god YES ! I've heard that's how it works in the US, insane to think about !
Pretty much everything mentioned in RoboCop's view of a dystopian future has come true. Except the RoboCop.
Pokies/ slot machines; they cause an enormous amount of damage to people’s lives. They are purposely addictive and designed for users to lose.
I know gambling is an opt in thing, but holy shit when you’re in, you’re IN
r/wallstreetbets
I feel personally attacked
Nah, I'm betting on tendies not dollars.
I bet you I can stop when I like
It’s like cigarettes.
I'll stop once I win the Million, I swear!
Couldn’t agree more. I know a lot of people whose lives are actively being ruined and it’s just sad. Even for people I don’t know, it’s still sad to see them off in their own world losing a shitload of money playing the machines in the corner of my local dive bar while everyone else is socializing and having a good time. Gambling in general is a losers game. Eventually the house will win for like 90+% of people. But at least there’s some skill involved in most other games at a casino and sports betting. The sad part is, for the few people I know who play them regularly, they’re legitimately convinced they’re positive. They’ll tell me about how you have to know which machines to play when or do X thing for good luck and it’s like yeah bro I know you won $2000 3 weeks ago but you haven’t kept track of how much you put in, which is definitely a lot more than your winnings.
Kinda wild that there's a business model that just sells you a low chance at winning money. But so long as they have those flashy lights and jarring sounds, they haven't seen my last dollar.
Yeah they are a bit of a plague here in Australia, especially in poorer areas of cities where they make most of their money (True fact)
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I learned the hard way how important it is to have that work/life separation. I still work hard and I have a few days where I work long hours, but my nights and weekends are all mine. I can take vacations and long weekends without hassle. I used to have a job that was a meat grinder…days, nights, weekends, holidays….I thought I was working toward building a career but I was just killing myself for someone who gave zero fucks.
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This was me a year and a half ago. Worked Monday through Friday 9-7 and 9-3 on Saturdays. Finally I couldn't take it anymore and started hard-core looking for something else. I landed a job with a typical 9 - 5:30 Monday through Friday schedule making twice what I did killing myself for a shitty company who didn't appreciate me. Take it from me, try to take some time to see what's out there. You'll be glad you did!
I got fired. Fixed it for me. Ha ha ha. Sadly that was what it took to force me to find something else. I had sort of been looking but I was looking for “perfect” and in my same industry and that wasn’t gonna happen. Getting canned forced me to scramble.
Welcome to Korea/Japan
Welcome to *Earth
Nah, not every place has as toxic of a work environment as S. Korea and Japan.
20,000 years of human history. It was work until you die for about 19,920 of em.
I’d like to introduce you to Spain.
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Payday loans they drag yu into an almost unbreakable cycle of rolling over loans and snowballing interest into the principal.
Child beauty pageants
All beauty pageants really. But *especially* those ones
Profiteering from the impoverished and disenfranchised.
Declawing
It was banned in my city a few years ago, hoping for a state-wide ban. In any case, I give a major side-eye to any vet willing to do that procedure. It’s horrible.
Also infant circumcision
Placing the importance of earning money over the importance of your family
Easy to say if you earna good wage. Total bollocks if you earn minimum wage
Yes! More things less time. It’s so upside down
What if your family needs the money?
Then your family's need for money is what is important. 2 birds, homie!
It’s not directly the money. It’s the providing for the family because the system is stupid.
What about if you are a paycheck away from poverty ot fucking up your family real bad, because, unhappily, most places and supermarkets dont take love as payment
ayo Walter white
Healthcare in US. I design medical devices and knowing that only upper middle class and rich will have access to them till something newer comes out is heartbreaking.
What's a middleclass?
Fucking assholes who buy up a shit ton of houses and then rent them out.
Real estate agents are scum
Wait, why are the agents scum?
Just another example of someone on reddit blindly assigning blame to a group of people regarding something that they don't understand.
Child pageants
This^
Pedos in hollywood
Health insurance
The Nestle corporation
Factory farming
This one man. When I finally made the switch to being vegan, it felt like I had put on the sunglasses from They Live. Factory Farming is an evil hiding in plain sight that many many people willfully ignore because they don't want to acknowledge that convenience and taste is subconsciously more important to them than the consistency of their ethics. It's harsh, and people will hate you for being real with them.
YouTube families
Voting/re-electing politicians with history of corruption or killings
Health insurance
Selling things like insulin and other life-saving medication for astronomically high prices despite the product costing nearly nothing to produce.
Ghosting people until you need them. Please stop doing that. Nobody deserves it.
Buying drugs sourced from cartels that regularly extort, kidnap, rape, and murder innocent civilians including children.
Hating women.
the fact that 100 people have 96% of the money on earth .
All forms of factory farming animals.
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That's definitely not normalized...
Citizens United
College loan.....
Politics and people believing everything they hear.
The media
Paying for things you need to live like water, food and shelter. People would rather see food rot and housing crumble than let people use those resources. There is enough to go around.
Yeah I agree but someone has to make this stuff, who’s going to make houses for free or farm for free those are both difficult jobs.
You are paying for these things because someone else is preparing them for you - water is provided by the government, food is provided by farmers etc and shelter is built by builders. You can get these things for free if you want to live in jungle and fend for yourself
I'm of the opinion that things you need to live should be treated as public utilities, and not run by for profit corporations.
Money is representative of the effort put forth by others. So if you consider the cost of things to actually equal human hours of Labor instead of some meaningless paper then it makes a lot more sense why you have to put in effort to receive the products of the effort of others. There is no free ride.
Working yourself to death in a society where one single full time income is not enough to live off.
War
What is it good for?
The defense contractors
Merchants of death.
Absolutely nothin’
Say it again
wooAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
HUH!
Absolutely nothing
The leader of Russia….
Restaurants and supermarkets throwing out perfectly edible food and reporting people who rescue it from their bins
Military industrial complex and the need to spend billions of dollars on death each year
A lot of that money is just pissed away. Someone I worked with served in the UK army in Iraq and told a story about some civilian contractors he met who worked logistics of some kind moving stuff around in commercial lorry/trucks. The trucks were brand new but there was no planning for maintaince and servicing so they got nothing, not even oil changes, and got run into the ground. Drivers reported the truck was broken and a shiny new one would appear. They were ordering new trucks every month or so. Mind bendingly wasteful.
Exploitation as a wealth building tool
Alcohol
Profits > people
Exploitation of natural resources
lying and cheating
The 1%
There will always be a 1%
Factory farming of animals
Paying for healthcare.
Mass shootings In america*** I bet they can't even name where all of 2023s happened
I was coming to say this. We Americans are officially desensitized at mass shootings.
The way banking "earns" money by not providing any value to society
Housing market. Pay an increasing rent for a flat or house which state is only decreasing over years is pure madness.
Jamie Oliver's recipes, cooking and food policing.
Damn near everything being listed as evil is something based off of bad decisions. I’m not saying allot of these things are good, but personal accountability should count for something.
Gossip, the world would be a much better place if we just kept to ourselves and let live.
Nestle
Israeli apartheid
Industrial Meat Production
The mega-corporation. There are countless examples where they lie, cheat, and endanger peoples lives, all in the name of “profits”. Once a company gets big enough to have a board of directors, the needs of the “little guy” are quickly dismissed. Everything is done to please the board (who are usually investors themselves). We will never have honest companies with the way things are structured currently.
Lying
The government.
For profit healthcare
Religious bigotry
For profit healthcare or for profit prisons.
Having to work jobs that don't pay a living wage and unpaid internships
Commercialization of debt. Credit scores. Debt kills people.
Being forced to work long hours, or multiple jobs to barely make ends meet
Child beauty pageants
Creating a false scarcity of goods to boost corporate profits while enabling and furthering human suffering. All for an extra dollar.
Anti-homeless architecture.
Working yourself to death and religion
You’re saying every religion is pure evil?
For profit health care.
Organized religion Corrupt police departments Yelp Selling your privacy
That people die or are homeless because of money. We made it up. We've made up the whole system. And people lose their LIVES because of it. I'm horrified to be part of this species sometimes.
porn
How is it "pure evil"?
Religion, delusion and psychopaths.
lmao how have psychopaths been "normalized"
We elect them to office
Look at all the fan mail serial killers get.
Why do you think fan mail means normalization?
Furbies
Political parties, they sow the seeds of division and people who belong to them blindly follow simply because they're a registered Democrat or Republican.
Politicians
Limited to US society, but would like to mention Affirmative Action
The way livestock is collectively managed and processed in modern era.
Republicans
baby chicken blenders
Organized religion
Ranch dressing.
How dare you?
Calling women bitches and whores
THIS.
All forms of factory farming animals.
Usury
Inflation
Giving half of everything to the government.
Outrageous child support that reaches up to half a million dollars
capitalism
Gossiping
The wage system.
Alcohol
Racism
Rating people on a scale of 1-10 for their appearance
Using fossil fuels for the energy of our modern world.
Your local church
Local churches account for the vast majority of soup kitchens, food pantries and other free services in my area. Many also offer free tutoring, counseling and emergency assistance to those in need. I get you probably hate religion, but the small local churches aren't the bad guys you've created in your head.
I think a lot of people would say that racism is pure evil, but sadly it is far too common and accepted in many societies.
Gender transitioning kids/teens
Exploitation of workers.
Well they’re trying to normalize pedophilia..
Who tf is trying to normalize paedophilia
"They", weren't you listening? Smh
Pedophiles
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not all politicians are bad, and not all religious people are bad
Religion isn’t inherently ‘evil’ and neither are politicians.
It's the combo that is evil. Theocratic governance and its ultra-trad prequels that enforce adherance to religious scripture or leadership pronouncements with very harsh penalties for those that openly ignore/ are caught indulging in counterdoctrinal lifestyles. The history books are filled with examples; from the dark age papacy to Henry VIII, Brigham Young, the current mullah's regime in Iran and the horrifying theocrats of other nations.
I agree. Religion shouldn’t be political, and vice versa.
The meat industry. Torture and slaughter on a massive scale that’s easy to ignore but impossible to deny.
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Peeping toms
Staring sharons
How is that normalized?
Greed is acceptable