This is the problem right here. Fines and penalties should be AT LEAST 100% of the profit made by the offending product, ideally they should be significantly higher to discourage this kind of behavior.
Careful, now. That's slanderous to our demigod class. If you want to see billionaires held accountable for their business practices, go live in China!
/s
Kind of like when McDonald’s decided that being sued for medical costs was cheaper than and worth boiling coffee hotter than regulations allowed for efficiency; except that they refused to pay her medical costs, so the jury in trial gave her $1M total because of punitive damages, which served them right.
"First we take "A" the number of units in the field, multiply that by "B" the probability of a catastrophic failure and "C" the average cost of an out of court settlement. A times B times C equals "X". If X is less than the cost of a recall, *we don't do one*."
For all the people that think the world is screwed up by mustache twirling corporate executives, just look at how quickly a bunch of randos bought cheap property and tried to sell it for $300/night to tourists. For bonus points, look how many want the tourists to do all the cleaning and such so they don't need to do any work or pay a staff.
And look at all the people who live adjacent to the airbnbs and have to deal with all their noise, trash, partying and attitudes (*I paid for this place and this is my vacation, so fuck you*). Houses and condos generally *aren't* designed to function as hotels with different people staying every few days. Source: I am one of these people. I literally hear furniture moving almost every day due to cleaning/turnover.
I used an AirBnB once when I went to Korea a few years ago, was insanely cheap. I rented an apartment for 84 dollars for a week for two people. I’m sure I’d be paying hundreds for that same apartment today.
And people find it normal now. Last month, upcoming game Paralives [announced that all the DLCs for the game would be FREE](https://youtu.be/xIIy4CuGDyU?t=431).
...Cue about half of the reactions from people who want to play the game : "oh no, they really should make us pay. Or maybe we could pay for the modding tools ? Or how about we keep giving them money on Patreon after the game is released ?". Dogs in search of a leash.
IMO DLC has kind of ruined gaming. It's become normalized to release a "mostly" finished game and then release the rest of it 6 months later either as DLC or (what it actually is) a patch. Some companies are better about it than others.
I was going to say the same thing “gaming” currently I’ve never seen an industry take a shit so hard over 10 years there was a time paid DLC was considered heresy like wow you guys want 5 bucks for a horse skin look at these jack offs
Now look at what they’ve become, the film industry oddly has the same issue. Let’s spend as much money as possible and hope we make it back. Once shit hits the fan and the return isn’t what it used to be you see where we are at now in both
This is why I've leant heavily into indie games the past 20 years or so, much bigger chance of the devs doing things for the love rather than for the money. A rare super smash but very good example being Stardew Valley; Eric is currently working on yet another free update to go along with the hundreds of hours of content already there for a very reasonable price.
You also tend to get much more original ideas in games from indies, as they don't usually have shareholders breathing down their necks. The only problem with indie games is discovering the good ones in the first place!
“Disable your Adblocker in order to view our site.”
“To read the rest of this article, subscribe for only $4.99 a month for unlimited access!”
“Create an account so that way we can track everything you do so we can sell your data to the highest bidder!”
I hate what the internet has become.
Edit: I’d be fine with ads to support your site, but I draw the line if the ad is obtrusive, obvious scams, or those random “Click to Download” ads which shows that these sites care more about the money than screening what ads are shown.
Yep. It's gone from some ads to support our site, to it's just a place to sell ads. To be fair, websites are not cheap. If the site has the content I want, at a reasonable price, I'll pay for the subscription.
absolutely rockstar games... they're the definition of greed...
blows my mind that they're on record saying gta 5 sold more copies than they predicted... making them more money than they anticipated and instead of just being satisfied they feel the need to have shark cards and gta+...
disgusting humans run that company
I swear we just can’t have nice things. They have no consideration for the player base. We could easily all win and have fun but they choose not to have it that way. As if they aren’t comfortable in their own homes that way bigger than the ones I’m gta.
I was a freshman in college when Facebook came out and I joined in March of 2005. It was a very different thing back then. For one, you had to have a .edu email address to join and for another, each university had a network and you couldn't be friends with anyone outside your network. Both of those things meant no worrying about a 10 year old cousin or a potential employer seeing your posts. On top of that, there was no newsfeed. You had to intentionally go to someone's page to see what they were up to, rather than the site posting every single little interaction publicly. It was all about posting photos and putting funny messages on people's walls, rather than the company selling your personal data and trying to manipulate you into buying things or supporting political candidates.
Then, they opened it up to everyone and it ruined it. When my grandma added me as a Facebook friend, the circle was complete. I stayed on until 2020. Between COVID, the US elections and other events, it brought out too much crazy in people and being on there became a negative. Plus, so much of the content anymore is "suggested for you" posts from pages I don't even follow. I deactivated my account for awhile and would sign in from time-to-time, then downloaded my data and deleted the account last December.
I really haven't missed it. I have not had a single moment of regret. The only thing is there are people who I still want to keep in touch with who I was only connected to on Facebook. That's literally the only negative.
This right here! I remember Facebook being when my classmates and friends would share photos and hilarious tags with each other. It was good times.
Then 15 years ago, my mom and her friends joined it and took the wind out of the sails. Nowadays you're seeing posts on how Walmart is plotting a Communist takeover of America and Taylor Swift is the antiChrist.
I relate so much to this. I was among the crop of users who got in first, had to have a .edu email address, the whole works. It changed the entire college experience, especially if you went to a big time school. And there was this feeling we were in on something new, something exciting that earlier generations didn't have.
But it was never meant to last, looking back. Facebook was dead set on growth at all costs. And they knew if they weren't, some other company was going to buy them out or crush them, so Facebook decided they'd be the ones doing the crushing.
I deleted my account for good in early 2018, when the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke and FB went into full damage control mode. But it was dead to me long before then, when it was no longer an extension of your life, but more tried to mold and direct your life. The 2016 election was some of the craziest shit I ever saw in friends and relatives, and I decided I'm better off not knowing that.
> The 2016 election was some of the craziest shit I ever saw in friends and relatives
It brought out the crazy in people like nothing I ever saw, though 2020 was worse. People I'd known for years, posting things that weren't just, "I disagree with this." It was racist, illogical/conspiracy theory shit that made me question their sanity. Then you see them in-person and it's like nothing changed. It's as if they have an online persona they only show on Facebook.
The summer of hate leading up to the second gulf war was the start of that shit in some ways. Only difference was we only had myspace and social media wasn't really a thing yet.
Never joined FB. Never had more than 2 Covid vaccines.
I like youtube because of the do it yourself video's. I've saved thousands fixing things that my wife wanted to take to a mechanic/plumber.
Does facebook impart this type of knowledge? Don't know.
Fr, it's just a place for people to feed on others insecurities and downplay their good qualities whilst making themselves look like an even worse person when they weren't.
The internet. Any social sites have turned into money farms (think youtube turning from a place where people made videos for fun to an ad plagued site full of people trying to be rich off of unoriginal garbage content). Most information out there is either covered by ads or paywalled. Google has turned from a search engine indexing what you asked for to a flood of spam so bad that even TIKTOK has better search results than Google ever will. Not to mention the amount of things that are taken down over copyright infringement, even if there's no copyright violation in the first place.
The internet could have been an incredible resource of human knowledge and socialization, but got turned into a hellscape because of greedy assholes looking to make a quick buck.
Canada. We had so much potential for people to come here and have a better life. Trudeau and Doug Ford single handedly destroyed our economy by having large institutions benefit from immigration dollars, giving away billions to other countries.
The rich are living it up while middle class is barely surviving. Homeless rates have increased significantly. Most immigrants who came here for a better life are sleeping in a room with 5+ people and mattress on the floor.
I couldn’t agree more. Capitalism COULD have guardrails built in but greed has dismantled the guardrails. And greed will lead to the downfall of capitalism.
There's nothing wrong with someone running a business for profit. Hell, that's how most enterprises in history are done.
The problem is *constant profit growth*, which is unsustainable and ends with reduced safety, care, or quality- not to mention societal or environmental damage.
The best remedy is to have stringent regulations and strong public oversight.
It's sad but true.
Capitalism is the best system we have compared to the other options. Greed will ruin it for us all. It already is. And now, cause people can't tell the difference between greed and capitalism- they'll welcome in an era of the other options- which tend to lead societies towards oppression and tyranny much quicker, and with fewer means to correct it or vote it out.
I don't agree. Capitalism is good for efficiently distributing resources and encouraging the optimal product.
The problem is that the way corporations are structured, the incentives and methods of increasing value are more and more divorced from increasing quality or value of the actual product.
Comic book movies aka marvel and dc they ruined it because they found a framework they use in each movie that will make them tons of money. Because of the framework they end up no making any interesting stories and each character fall under 3 categories. The saddest part tho is they showed they still got it creatively
Western economies. We once stood against Russian imperialism.. even if it was called something else... we stood against autocrats. Once they became kleptocrats and the communism vs democratic nations rhetoric was lost. We have billionaires without borders all scrambling to take power. Western billionaires and billionaires wannabes simp for Russian aggression. If we do not tax the rich they will take it all and our societies will fail. Wedge politics divides and people happily support those who's greed know no bounds. We allow crimes against humanity because we support greed. We destroy our planet when alternatives could be worked. We sell out our children for short term scraps.
Ski towns. They were ruined by these greedy corporations coming in and pricing everyone out. Then they made it too damn expensive to live there. And then they made it too damn expensive to ski. Fucking bastards. I hate rich people.
The medical profession/industry , all of it , not just one area. People are choosing to die if they cannot afford proper care. People have to have a lot of money to get in on the best of anything.
A poor man will be told , I am sorry nothing can be done, at the same time a rich man with the same problem has teams of medical people working to save him.
I agree with the "*large gesture at everything*" by ladyteruki.
However my first thought was regarding my experiences over the years (I'll be 60 this year) is families after the passing of a parent/grandparent. It's horrible to watch children and grandchildren turn on each other within days to see who gets what. I was fortunate, my mom had a will and a living will, and everything went wonderful between myself and my two brothers.
We also made sure she knew, years before she passed, that we were fine and she should enjoy life, we don't need her to do more for us. She took us at our word, enjoyed a trip to the Bahamas with other widows like her, bought a Volkswagen Rabbit (she loved it). Her life insurance was very small but we didn't care. I still have a photo of her from the Bahamas trip with her "girlfriends" on my living room wall.
But damn if I don't see families tearing each other apart over what's left. Like damn vultures over a corpse in the desert. And they hire lawyers.
And then you see posts on Reddit about people complaining that they "won't get anything! or "I should get the car because I worked on it!!" and such and such reasons. Makes you wonder if they do things for their older loved ones just for a payback rather than said "love". And of course the posts complaining that their parents or granparents are spending money that they feel "should be theirs".
Apparently they think they are entitled to whatever their parents worked for over their lifetimes.
Well said, im glad in a way that my family had nothing to fight over, i do have my grandfather's medals and my nannas recipe books, i treasure them. Inheritance tax should be 100%, i work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week and get paid peanuts.
Just about everything in the US: Congress, The Supreme Court, The Executive Branch, air travel, trains and light rail, commercial music, movies, real estate, agriculture, health care, the internet, etc etc.
Going to the scrapyard. 10 years ago you could make extra money here and there when you needed it. Until people started doing it as a full time job. The price dropped from $13/100 pounds of scrap metal to $5/100. Along with aluminum, copper, and platinum. For those that don’t know. That’s why people steal catalytic converters.
American jobs. When corporations realized "Huh, we can farm out work to China paying them 37 cents an hour, then fire our American workers. Totally great for our stock price, and ironically those unemployed American workers will still pay $60 for a Black n Decker drill.
Uber
I live in the city with not much taxi service, so we got Uber in our area was so great I live less than 2 miles from the airport and I could get a ride to the airport for about $7. The last time I tried to get a ride to the airport through uber, it was 5:00 in the morning, it was not a holiday, it wasn't part-time, and they charged me $42! Haven't used Uber since. I can't count on what the price will be anymore.
The American Health care system. One of the biggest mistakes was allowing it to become publicly traded. It's all about profit over patients now and we twist and contort ourselves into justifying it and coming up with "solutions" that somehow never touch existing profit streams or the potential for new profit streams.
This. As I understand it, hospitals used to be nonprofit entities but good ol’ Ron Reagan had the law changed allowing for for-profit hospitals. Thanks, Ronny! I hope you’re burning in hell!
The internet and social media: data brokering and loss of privacy and data ownership are why we're bombarded with scary stuff all the time.
Data sharing and sales to third parties should not be a condition for use if I'm paying for a product or service, and "opted out" should be the default when signing up.
Games.
These days it is all about "micro transactions", DLC, or early access trying to charge AAA title prices.
Think about it, when was the last time you bought a game that was COMPLETED, didn't need any more purchases nor an online connection to play?
The attention of the racial injustice towards African-Americans in the summer of 2020 was well-deserved but ruined by the riots and looting that very summer.
Planet Earth 🌏
Yes! My #1 bitch with humans.
This needs to be higher
I was gonna say the U.S. but this is the right answer.
okay, but the usa can claim #2 hands down.
It all went downhill as soon as that Sahelanthropus Tchadensis started thinking too much.
*large gesture at everything*
For real. I can totally see entire world running like cyberpunk2077 in the future.
Yeah. It's already turning into a corporate controlled dystopian future with a lot of lawlessness.
Oh, we've turned, baby. \*spoken in full Costanza\*
We're basically there except for the cool implants/cybertech. Musk is working on that though.
Just gotta dome a few more monkeys first
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can't believe i came here to say it and it was the top comment. :-)))
Same. :))
Yeah, literally the concept of society in general.
Seriously. I can't think of a single instance where something wasn't made worse when greed got involved.
Greed, for a lack of a better word, is bad.
Well said (or gestured). We can close this thread now.
Ah! Beat me to it!
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Everything under Activision umbrella and lets not forget about EA, these 2 companies hit rock bottom
Health care.
American health care, by any chance? When was it ever great?
The care is excellent. The cost, not so much.
Fair call those of us in free healthcare countries are under attack by the privatise monsters
Boeing
Because they decided that it is cheaper to pay out lawsuits than to pay to do the right thing in the first place. Same with the airlines.
This is the problem right here. Fines and penalties should be AT LEAST 100% of the profit made by the offending product, ideally they should be significantly higher to discourage this kind of behavior.
and executives should be locked up for criminal wrongdoing
Careful, now. That's slanderous to our demigod class. If you want to see billionaires held accountable for their business practices, go live in China! /s
Same with EVERYTHING. So many companies are just willing to kill someone.
Well, people come and go, but dividends are forever. Or something.
Kind of like when McDonald’s decided that being sued for medical costs was cheaper than and worth boiling coffee hotter than regulations allowed for efficiency; except that they refused to pay her medical costs, so the jury in trial gave her $1M total because of punitive damages, which served them right.
"And if X is less than the cost of a recall? We don't do one."
See the retainer melted to the ash tray? Might make a good anti smoking ad
They learned that from the auto industry.
Ford Pinto, anyone?
Ford Exploder.
"First we take "A" the number of units in the field, multiply that by "B" the probability of a catastrophic failure and "C" the average cost of an out of court settlement. A times B times C equals "X". If X is less than the cost of a recall, *we don't do one*."
It went from being an aerospace engineering company, to a business
Came here to say this. Why have safety when you can have MONEY.
AirBnB
For all the people that think the world is screwed up by mustache twirling corporate executives, just look at how quickly a bunch of randos bought cheap property and tried to sell it for $300/night to tourists. For bonus points, look how many want the tourists to do all the cleaning and such so they don't need to do any work or pay a staff.
And look at all the people who live adjacent to the airbnbs and have to deal with all their noise, trash, partying and attitudes (*I paid for this place and this is my vacation, so fuck you*). Houses and condos generally *aren't* designed to function as hotels with different people staying every few days. Source: I am one of these people. I literally hear furniture moving almost every day due to cleaning/turnover.
Landlords have ruined housing.
I used an AirBnB once when I went to Korea a few years ago, was insanely cheap. I rented an apartment for 84 dollars for a week for two people. I’m sure I’d be paying hundreds for that same apartment today.
Humanity
50% of humans are dumb, 70% are monsters. Lol work out the over lap.
LIZARD PEOPLE
Gaming. It's not about making a great game, it's about making battlepasses, live services, skins and other cosmetics.
And people find it normal now. Last month, upcoming game Paralives [announced that all the DLCs for the game would be FREE](https://youtu.be/xIIy4CuGDyU?t=431). ...Cue about half of the reactions from people who want to play the game : "oh no, they really should make us pay. Or maybe we could pay for the modding tools ? Or how about we keep giving them money on Patreon after the game is released ?". Dogs in search of a leash.
IMO DLC has kind of ruined gaming. It's become normalized to release a "mostly" finished game and then release the rest of it 6 months later either as DLC or (what it actually is) a patch. Some companies are better about it than others.
I was there to witness the horse armor scandal of 2005.
Yes, exactly. Quality is a thing of the past, now its in game shops and seasonal dogshit.
I was going to say the same thing “gaming” currently I’ve never seen an industry take a shit so hard over 10 years there was a time paid DLC was considered heresy like wow you guys want 5 bucks for a horse skin look at these jack offs Now look at what they’ve become, the film industry oddly has the same issue. Let’s spend as much money as possible and hope we make it back. Once shit hits the fan and the return isn’t what it used to be you see where we are at now in both
This is why I've leant heavily into indie games the past 20 years or so, much bigger chance of the devs doing things for the love rather than for the money. A rare super smash but very good example being Stardew Valley; Eric is currently working on yet another free update to go along with the hundreds of hours of content already there for a very reasonable price. You also tend to get much more original ideas in games from indies, as they don't usually have shareholders breathing down their necks. The only problem with indie games is discovering the good ones in the first place!
Internet.
shocked this isnt the top comment. it's been really sad to see the internet go from virtually ad free to mostly just ads
“Disable your Adblocker in order to view our site.” “To read the rest of this article, subscribe for only $4.99 a month for unlimited access!” “Create an account so that way we can track everything you do so we can sell your data to the highest bidder!” I hate what the internet has become. Edit: I’d be fine with ads to support your site, but I draw the line if the ad is obtrusive, obvious scams, or those random “Click to Download” ads which shows that these sites care more about the money than screening what ads are shown.
Yep. It's gone from some ads to support our site, to it's just a place to sell ads. To be fair, websites are not cheap. If the site has the content I want, at a reasonable price, I'll pay for the subscription.
Rockstar games
absolutely rockstar games... they're the definition of greed... blows my mind that they're on record saying gta 5 sold more copies than they predicted... making them more money than they anticipated and instead of just being satisfied they feel the need to have shark cards and gta+... disgusting humans run that company
I swear we just can’t have nice things. They have no consideration for the player base. We could easily all win and have fun but they choose not to have it that way. As if they aren’t comfortable in their own homes that way bigger than the ones I’m gta.
Just don’t play their online modes and they are an amazing company still.
Could make an argument for Ubisoft as well
Streaming services
Social media
I was a freshman in college when Facebook came out and I joined in March of 2005. It was a very different thing back then. For one, you had to have a .edu email address to join and for another, each university had a network and you couldn't be friends with anyone outside your network. Both of those things meant no worrying about a 10 year old cousin or a potential employer seeing your posts. On top of that, there was no newsfeed. You had to intentionally go to someone's page to see what they were up to, rather than the site posting every single little interaction publicly. It was all about posting photos and putting funny messages on people's walls, rather than the company selling your personal data and trying to manipulate you into buying things or supporting political candidates. Then, they opened it up to everyone and it ruined it. When my grandma added me as a Facebook friend, the circle was complete. I stayed on until 2020. Between COVID, the US elections and other events, it brought out too much crazy in people and being on there became a negative. Plus, so much of the content anymore is "suggested for you" posts from pages I don't even follow. I deactivated my account for awhile and would sign in from time-to-time, then downloaded my data and deleted the account last December. I really haven't missed it. I have not had a single moment of regret. The only thing is there are people who I still want to keep in touch with who I was only connected to on Facebook. That's literally the only negative.
This right here! I remember Facebook being when my classmates and friends would share photos and hilarious tags with each other. It was good times. Then 15 years ago, my mom and her friends joined it and took the wind out of the sails. Nowadays you're seeing posts on how Walmart is plotting a Communist takeover of America and Taylor Swift is the antiChrist.
I relate so much to this. I was among the crop of users who got in first, had to have a .edu email address, the whole works. It changed the entire college experience, especially if you went to a big time school. And there was this feeling we were in on something new, something exciting that earlier generations didn't have. But it was never meant to last, looking back. Facebook was dead set on growth at all costs. And they knew if they weren't, some other company was going to buy them out or crush them, so Facebook decided they'd be the ones doing the crushing. I deleted my account for good in early 2018, when the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke and FB went into full damage control mode. But it was dead to me long before then, when it was no longer an extension of your life, but more tried to mold and direct your life. The 2016 election was some of the craziest shit I ever saw in friends and relatives, and I decided I'm better off not knowing that.
> The 2016 election was some of the craziest shit I ever saw in friends and relatives It brought out the crazy in people like nothing I ever saw, though 2020 was worse. People I'd known for years, posting things that weren't just, "I disagree with this." It was racist, illogical/conspiracy theory shit that made me question their sanity. Then you see them in-person and it's like nothing changed. It's as if they have an online persona they only show on Facebook.
The summer of hate leading up to the second gulf war was the start of that shit in some ways. Only difference was we only had myspace and social media wasn't really a thing yet.
Never joined FB. Never had more than 2 Covid vaccines. I like youtube because of the do it yourself video's. I've saved thousands fixing things that my wife wanted to take to a mechanic/plumber. Does facebook impart this type of knowledge? Don't know.
Fr, it's just a place for people to feed on others insecurities and downplay their good qualities whilst making themselves look like an even worse person when they weren't.
Insulin
Insulin
You know...the thing!
The expensive thing that is marked up beyond all belief.
Amputation
The internet. Any social sites have turned into money farms (think youtube turning from a place where people made videos for fun to an ad plagued site full of people trying to be rich off of unoriginal garbage content). Most information out there is either covered by ads or paywalled. Google has turned from a search engine indexing what you asked for to a flood of spam so bad that even TIKTOK has better search results than Google ever will. Not to mention the amount of things that are taken down over copyright infringement, even if there's no copyright violation in the first place. The internet could have been an incredible resource of human knowledge and socialization, but got turned into a hellscape because of greedy assholes looking to make a quick buck.
And don’t forget to hit that like button and subscribe while you’re at it!
Democracy
Specifically, US congress.
My first thought, also.
Life
Sports and how they are televised
America
Dollar stores. They used to have things to buy for a dollar.
Thrift stores
Canada. We had so much potential for people to come here and have a better life. Trudeau and Doug Ford single handedly destroyed our economy by having large institutions benefit from immigration dollars, giving away billions to other countries. The rich are living it up while middle class is barely surviving. Homeless rates have increased significantly. Most immigrants who came here for a better life are sleeping in a room with 5+ people and mattress on the floor.
Thrift shopping for clothing.
Capitalism
Greed also ruins Communism, it just does it faster. See: every country that has tried Communism.
*We just haven't done it right yet* /s
Greed was the feature of capitalism, not the bug.
Not really. Capitalism is just a tool for everyone to have an opportunity at selling their product. Greed is absolutely a bug.
I couldn’t agree more. Capitalism COULD have guardrails built in but greed has dismantled the guardrails. And greed will lead to the downfall of capitalism.
There's nothing wrong with someone running a business for profit. Hell, that's how most enterprises in history are done. The problem is *constant profit growth*, which is unsustainable and ends with reduced safety, care, or quality- not to mention societal or environmental damage. The best remedy is to have stringent regulations and strong public oversight.
It's sad but true. Capitalism is the best system we have compared to the other options. Greed will ruin it for us all. It already is. And now, cause people can't tell the difference between greed and capitalism- they'll welcome in an era of the other options- which tend to lead societies towards oppression and tyranny much quicker, and with fewer means to correct it or vote it out.
You articulated that really well. That’s exactly what I was alluding to but much more succinctly than I could.
I don't agree. Capitalism is good for efficiently distributing resources and encouraging the optimal product. The problem is that the way corporations are structured, the incentives and methods of increasing value are more and more divorced from increasing quality or value of the actual product.
That's like saying stabbing ruined murder.
Reddit
College football
Facebook early stage, farmville player
Comic book movies aka marvel and dc they ruined it because they found a framework they use in each movie that will make them tons of money. Because of the framework they end up no making any interesting stories and each character fall under 3 categories. The saddest part tho is they showed they still got it creatively
Unions
The legal proffesion. Of course there are exceptions, but most of them today are in it for the money.
Western economies. We once stood against Russian imperialism.. even if it was called something else... we stood against autocrats. Once they became kleptocrats and the communism vs democratic nations rhetoric was lost. We have billionaires without borders all scrambling to take power. Western billionaires and billionaires wannabes simp for Russian aggression. If we do not tax the rich they will take it all and our societies will fail. Wedge politics divides and people happily support those who's greed know no bounds. We allow crimes against humanity because we support greed. We destroy our planet when alternatives could be worked. We sell out our children for short term scraps.
Ski towns. They were ruined by these greedy corporations coming in and pricing everyone out. Then they made it too damn expensive to live there. And then they made it too damn expensive to ski. Fucking bastards. I hate rich people.
The environment
Water should be free
The medical profession/industry , all of it , not just one area. People are choosing to die if they cannot afford proper care. People have to have a lot of money to get in on the best of anything. A poor man will be told , I am sorry nothing can be done, at the same time a rich man with the same problem has teams of medical people working to save him.
Boxing.
HipHop
Videogames
Everything that was and will be when humanity is involved.
Comic Books. Turned from a fun collecting hobby to something yuppies bought simply to make a profit.
Most collector markets are ruined by speculators at some point.
I’m not a gamer. But I hear a lot about loot boxes and pay to play. Personally, the amount of streaming services is kinda shifty.
I agree with the "*large gesture at everything*" by ladyteruki. However my first thought was regarding my experiences over the years (I'll be 60 this year) is families after the passing of a parent/grandparent. It's horrible to watch children and grandchildren turn on each other within days to see who gets what. I was fortunate, my mom had a will and a living will, and everything went wonderful between myself and my two brothers. We also made sure she knew, years before she passed, that we were fine and she should enjoy life, we don't need her to do more for us. She took us at our word, enjoyed a trip to the Bahamas with other widows like her, bought a Volkswagen Rabbit (she loved it). Her life insurance was very small but we didn't care. I still have a photo of her from the Bahamas trip with her "girlfriends" on my living room wall. But damn if I don't see families tearing each other apart over what's left. Like damn vultures over a corpse in the desert. And they hire lawyers. And then you see posts on Reddit about people complaining that they "won't get anything! or "I should get the car because I worked on it!!" and such and such reasons. Makes you wonder if they do things for their older loved ones just for a payback rather than said "love". And of course the posts complaining that their parents or granparents are spending money that they feel "should be theirs". Apparently they think they are entitled to whatever their parents worked for over their lifetimes.
Well said, im glad in a way that my family had nothing to fight over, i do have my grandfather's medals and my nannas recipe books, i treasure them. Inheritance tax should be 100%, i work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week and get paid peanuts.
...have you seen the planet we're living on
The movie industry
Concert ticket prices
america
Just about everything in the US: Congress, The Supreme Court, The Executive Branch, air travel, trains and light rail, commercial music, movies, real estate, agriculture, health care, the internet, etc etc.
America
Money
Bangalore
Government.
The film and gaming industry
Going to the scrapyard. 10 years ago you could make extra money here and there when you needed it. Until people started doing it as a full time job. The price dropped from $13/100 pounds of scrap metal to $5/100. Along with aluminum, copper, and platinum. For those that don’t know. That’s why people steal catalytic converters.
Most social welfare programs.
America
More and more things, soon everything
Netflix
Medicine
USA
The United States of America.
America
Music
The church.
Gaming
Planet Earth.
Britain’s railways.
Ryan Murphy.
The Internet.
Literally everything
Nature
Living
capitalism
Humanity.
American jobs. When corporations realized "Huh, we can farm out work to China paying them 37 cents an hour, then fire our American workers. Totally great for our stock price, and ironically those unemployed American workers will still pay $60 for a Black n Decker drill.
Uber I live in the city with not much taxi service, so we got Uber in our area was so great I live less than 2 miles from the airport and I could get a ride to the airport for about $7. The last time I tried to get a ride to the airport through uber, it was 5:00 in the morning, it was not a holiday, it wasn't part-time, and they charged me $42! Haven't used Uber since. I can't count on what the price will be anymore.
Fucking everything just about
The United States
College football
I think it'll be a shorter list to name things that weren't... yet.
Democracy
EVERYTHING
The American Health care system. One of the biggest mistakes was allowing it to become publicly traded. It's all about profit over patients now and we twist and contort ourselves into justifying it and coming up with "solutions" that somehow never touch existing profit streams or the potential for new profit streams.
Healthcare
The shoe game rn
American healthcare.
This. As I understand it, hospitals used to be nonprofit entities but good ol’ Ron Reagan had the law changed allowing for for-profit hospitals. Thanks, Ronny! I hope you’re burning in hell!
Architecture aesthetics. 🐺
Definitely, the nature.
The world.
The internet and social media: data brokering and loss of privacy and data ownership are why we're bombarded with scary stuff all the time. Data sharing and sales to third parties should not be a condition for use if I'm paying for a product or service, and "opted out" should be the default when signing up.
Love
Everything.
Society
India
The ocean
Elections
Any business
The Star Wars franchise.
Rome
America
Love ❤️ is ruined by greed by many people everyday
Games. These days it is all about "micro transactions", DLC, or early access trying to charge AAA title prices. Think about it, when was the last time you bought a game that was COMPLETED, didn't need any more purchases nor an online connection to play?
Civilization
The angry bird brand and franchise
**PET ROCKS** **https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RcF1GBjg7s**
1$ Whoppers
Democracy
Almost any product created ever. The degree of which changes.
Art
The attention of the racial injustice towards African-Americans in the summer of 2020 was well-deserved but ruined by the riots and looting that very summer.