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34 sats \ 9 replies \ @netstatic 16 May \ parent \ on: What's a Scam that's so normalized that people don't even realize it's a scam?? bitcoin
Someone woke up firey today 😂
Something doesn't have to provide 0 value for it to be a scam. For example, you can sell me on the idea of an umbrella being extra unique and charge double price for it. Once I realize it's a regular umbrella I'm calling it a scam, even though it provides protection from the rain. Why? Because I'm not getting adequate value for the cost charged to me. Taxes in a lot of ways are like this. There are a lot of middle men.
An interesting case in point is libraries. Everyone nowadays thinks that libraries MUST be funded by the state.
But lending libraries originated as private companies. They were often really low budget, people had memberships, they had just a short opening time each week, people would come at that time and check out a book for a week.
I'm just reading Victor Klemperer's book I Will Bear Witness, memoirs of a German Jewish professor in Nazi Germany. The government libraries were the first ones to deny entrance to Jews. He was able to use private lending libraries for a while after being denied entry to the government libraries.
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This is a horrible analogy because it could never happen in the U.S. today due to federal and state regulations prohibiting discrimination in almost every imaginable form by government ran entities. My state today just advanced a bill to prevent landlords from discriminating on who to rent to based on income. For instance, if X and Y all have the same qualifications and both can afford the monthly rent but X makes more money, it's going to be illegal to use that reason to rent to X instead of Y.
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Oh really...
So there wasn't in the past couple years MASSIVE discrimination against people who didn't want to tie a rag over their mouth and nose? And people who didn't want to inject an experimental substance in their arms?
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I think AJ is like an anti-darthcoin. Both can have irrationally passionate takes lol.
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No there wasn't. Masks worked and the vaccine works and has saved millions of lives. The vaccine also wasn't experimental, they have been working on vaccines for corona viruses (which is a subtype of viruses, kinda like an animal species) since the 80s. All they had to do was tweak it for the specific strain (covid-19). I'm vaxxed four times and I am fine. And it's not about you, that's what you selfish fucks fail to comprehend. It's about those who medically can't wear masks or get vaxxed and protecting them from catching a virus that has a much higher chancr of killing them.
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