I ChatGPTed a list of scams. This list is quite impressive and depressing at the same time. Humanity is full of scams.
1. Holiday gift cards
2. “Breakfast is the most important meal”
3. Diamonds
4. Black friday engineerd hysteria
5. Pink/ blue colors to sell more clothes to parents
6. 8 glasses of water a day - water bottle company backed campaign
7. Recycling - shifting of responsiblity from producers to consumers
8. Low fat driven by sugar industry
9. Mattress companies
10. Fashion seasons
11. Beauty standards
12. Loyalty programs to harvest data
13. College rankings
14. College - added by me
15. Sunscreen inflated skin cancer claims
16. Flouride as means of waste disposal - aluminum industry
17. Plant-based foods - owned by meat conglomorates to hedge bets
18. Streaming services rotating content with “expiring”
19. Psychology of pricing - price anchoring etc…
20. Artificial delays between streaming services show seasons, split seasons etc to draw out subscriptions
21. Manufactured drama - in hollywood, between artists etc…
22. Manufactured news drama
23. Detox products - pseudoscience
24. Supplements
25. Essential oils
26. anti-aging creams
27. Shampoo cycles - overwashing
28. Gendered products - pink tax
29. “Natural” label - legally meaningless
30. Sugar-free / fat-free
31. Bottled water
32. auto dealer addons, already pre-applied highest margins
33. Extended warranties
34. Apple Care
35. Planned obsolescence
36. Credit scores
37. 401k fees
38. Buy now pay later
39. Home staging
40. Smart home add-ons
41. Greenwashing certifications
42. “eco-friendly”
43. Printer ink pricing
44. Phone planned obsolescence
45. Texbook revisions to kill resale market
46. For-profit colleges (I’d say most colleges actually)
47. Carbon offsets
48. Compostable plastics - rarely composted
49. Recycling - rarely done due to costs
50. Evergreen patents on pharma products
51. The entire healthcare system “sick system”
52. Sales tax (I’d say ALL taxes)
53. Paint industry - same paint, different labels
54. Eyewear monopoly and markups
55. Funeral industry one giant scam
56. Fake MSRP in mattress industry
57. Hotel resort fees
58. “Limited runs” in brands to create artificial shortages
59. Pretty much all online marketing manipulation (1 left, 5 other people bought etc….)
60. Charity donations
61. airline fuel surchage
62. academic publishing industry - Elsevier etc, taxpayer funded research paywalled
What else?
Does bitcoin fix these?
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63. I reacted with a cool emoji but primal renders it as a heart
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Feminism
What was your prompt/question for ChatGPT?
Diamond is a huge one
Housing shortage, aka artificial scarcity
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Just digging around various topics
Purchasing extended warranties.
Social security.
You have to go to the dentist every 6 months.
Aluminum car wheels.
Aluminum car wheels? I’m intrigued. I haven’t heard of this one, but I want to hear about it.
I don’t know if Bitcoin fixes all of these, but holy shit.
Milspec - not because military specifications aren't real and honored by some manufactures. The term is used falsely a lot though.
Similar: military grade, industrial grade (again, not always strictly meaningless, but often enough that you have to verify actual specs)
How often should you go to the dentist and why?
I thought twice a year seems reasonable for cleaning. Some people have to go in 4 times
They friggin weld themselves onto the steel brake rotors because of galvanic corrosion. They're easily damaged. They go flat if you spin the tires and they cost more than steel wheels that have none of these issues.
I go like once every three years. Just brush your teeth, they'll be fine.
Removing Indians from the Internet fixes a lot of this
Fair enough. Thanks for explaining. 👍🏼
I go only when there’s a problem. The annual/twice annual bullshit is just that.. insurance bullshit.
Good hygiene goes the distance.
In the US, we have a general scam related to compensation for government abuse.
IF someone can sue and IF they win, the damages are paid for using taxes stolen from the abused citizens. So you tend to see government abuse people simply because it has nothing to lose. If it goes to court, so what? The People pay regardless. The violators usually are protected from personal liability. Government overreach and abuse has no meaningful downside for government officials. The incentive is to just throw as much spaghetti as possible at the walls and see what sticks. It's a never ending battle for freedom that WE have to pay for.
A scam if there ever was one.
Doesn’t chatgpt run #9 (hassel-less) mattress?
Disagree eith #39 - properly means ‘clean your house, and remove your clutter’
52 is the least evil tax.
Except that isn't necessarily true. No one brushes their teeth perfectly, which is why its recommended that you have plaque removed twice yearly or roughly every six months. I used to be a dental assistant. No one, even the best of examples, hits every spot perfectly. And the results over time can be damaging.
There are also other screenings performed. We've caught early cancer development between cleanings. Other issues can be caught early too that may lead to complications if left unchecked. There are also certain conditions that people may be unaware of that can create a harmful oral environment.
This isn't a scam. It's based on broad data for a very diverse population. I've never met anyone, even dentists, who don't benefit from at least an annual cleaning and exam. I've never seen a single patient waste their time coming twice annually. There's always preventative measures to take. Oral health can also affect other organ systems.
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Those are usually for SRP to prevent or treat gum disease. In fairness, that *usually* is due to poor hygiene. On average, most people, even the ones with good hygiene, benefit from 2 cleanings and screenings per year.
If you only go when you have a problem, you almost certainly could have caught the issue much earlier and prevented damage or decreased your chances of more serious outcomes, such as tooth or jaw bone loss or infection, including of the heart and other systems.
People can do whatever they want, obviously. But almost everyone is better off going every six months if they can. You can go less and save whatever low amount dental insurance is, but all you're doing is increasing your odds of health problems to save a few bucks a month.
I saw a young guy in the emergency department a few months ago for what ended up being pericarditis secondary to a dental problem that would have been discovered on dental xrays and exams before it became a major problem. He didn't even know the problem was that big yet. A dentist would have known when it was small. Really small. To each their own.
Even if rare, you may prevent early death by just getting your teeth cleaned and screened every six months. It's worth the few bucks to me.
This is why I don't like to use words like "scam" so loosely. People tend to conflate shit they don't want to do or pay for or anecdotes with fraud. YOU may indeed be okay up until now. But many others, on average, weren't (hence the recommendations).
Insurance - medical care collusion
Wealthy public servants
Gun laws
Speed limits/tickets
Really good list!
I’m not in disagreement with any of this. You don’t have to convince me 🤣
Maybe it's scam, but I really like "limited runs" 😃
Manufactured demand
Inflation = Proliferation of Poor Options
impressive list
Seed oils are missing
cars with inbuilt sim cards
websites inticing you to make an account
This sounds suspiciously like a person saying it. No way ChatGPT said it like that.
The main one is missing: the demon par excellence the fiat currency
Nice to meet you 😉🤝
Nice to meet you 🤝😉
I paraphrased
Yea, that bugs me. I am more of a zap vs like guy on Nostr, but there is room to react with emojis while sending that zap. Think of it like body language ;-). Reducing such reactions to nothing more than a like is pretty lame.
Getting rid of one or two religions will fix all of this.
These are called Pharisaism and Roman Catholicism (Christianity). Get rid of those two, and you'll fix 90% or more of the problems we have.
63. ChatGPT over-used
I don't agree that all of these are necessarily scams or even wrong, but many are and there is a veritable mountain of marketing bs out there for sure, and we really have to guard ourselves against it.
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I ChatGPTed a list of scams. This list is quite impressive and depressing at the same time. Humanity is full of scams.
1. Holiday gift cards
2. “Breakfast is the most important meal”
3. Diamonds
4. Black friday engineerd hysteria
5. Pink/ blue colors to sell more clothes to parents
6. 8 glasses of water a day - water bottle company backed campaign
7. Recycling - shifting of responsiblity from producers to consumers
8. Low fat driven by sugar industry
9. Mattress companies
10. Fashion seasons
11. Beauty standards
12. Loyalty programs to harvest data
13. College rankings
14. College - added by me
15. Sunscreen inflated skin cancer claims
16. Flouride as means of waste disposal - aluminum industry
17. Plant-based foods - owned by meat conglomorates to hedge bets
18. Streaming services rotating content with “expiring”
19. Psychology of pricing - price anchoring etc…
20. Artificial delays between streaming services show seasons, split seasons etc to draw out subscriptions
21. Manufactured drama - in hollywood, between artists etc…
22. Manufactured news drama
23. Detox products - pseudoscience
24. Supplements
25. Essential oils
26. anti-aging creams
27. Shampoo cycles - overwashing
28. Gendered products - pink tax
29. “Natural” label - legally meaningless
30. Sugar-free / fat-free
31. Bottled water
32. auto dealer addons, already pre-applied highest margins
33. Extended warranties
34. Apple Care
35. Planned obsolescence
36. Credit scores
37. 401k fees
38. Buy now pay later
39. Home staging
40. Smart home add-ons
41. Greenwashing certifications
42. “eco-friendly”
43. Printer ink pricing
44. Phone planned obsolescence
45. Texbook revisions to kill resale market
46. For-profit colleges (I’d say most colleges actually)
47. Carbon offsets
48. Compostable plastics - rarely composted
49. Recycling - rarely done due to costs
50. Evergreen patents on pharma products
51. The entire healthcare system “sick system”
52. Sales tax (I’d say ALL taxes)
53. Paint industry - same paint, different labels
54. Eyewear monopoly and markups
55. Funeral industry one giant scam
56. Fake MSRP in mattress industry
57. Hotel resort fees
58. “Limited runs” in brands to create artificial shortages
59. Pretty much all online marketing manipulation (1 left, 5 other people bought etc….)
60. Charity donations
61. airline fuel surchage
62. academic publishing industry - Elsevier etc, taxpayer funded research paywalled
What else?
Does bitcoin fix these?
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It depends - you're right if it's limited runs of an otherwise mass-produced product. Then yes, it's manufactured demand.
But if it's limited runs as a business strategy, like those pens →
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it's not. It's just a business model.
Same thing.
