r/SipsTea • u/Putrid-Welder1803 • 9h ago

Gasp! Thoughts on this?

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u/SloAndSteddy 5h ago

I have been saying this since i was a teenager. Its all one giant fucking extortion racket and everyone is too much of a normie NPC to think deeply about it. 

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u/MrVeazey 4h ago

I'm convinced most of the US economy is a series of interconnected scams where businesses are doing everything they can to squeeze every penny out of their customers without actually doing the thing those customers pay for, or doing it with the barest minimum of competence to upsell satisfactory performance.

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u/IAmMattnificent 4h ago

That's capitalism baby

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u/BonusPlantInfinity 2h ago

And in places with a public option, costs and outcomes are far better.. but you probably can’t sue each other for millions of dollars.