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DLCs: Games are expected to have DLCs nowadays, so game devs purposefully hold back some ideas for potential DLCs, often crippling the main game as a result.
Subscription services: For pretty much anything, but especially those automated monthly payments, which you won't bother cancelling, even if you feel like you're not using the service to its fullest.
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
Giving money to politicians.
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.
competition. You like Brand A? and dislike Brand B? both are owned by C
Social media
"Disposable" electronics
Everything comes with a subscription
Homeopathy?
401k
Paying for cellular data, in advance, regardless of whether or not you use it with no possibility of refunding any you didn't use.
Individualism.
Massage school. They say theyβre teaching you a trade and will help with job placement but there is a glut of graduates and not enough jobs for them. Yet the school keeps signing up new students because thatβs how they make money.
Religion. The all-time champion, no contest, just as George Carlin said:
People who vote for conservatives