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Health Insurance that covers next to nothing but costs a fortune anyway.

My brother used to work for an SEO company. They charged clients to have their web sites on directories which would improve their Google pagerank… until Google updated the algorithm to penalize sites listed in these directories. The company quickly pivoted to charging the same clients to have them removed from the directories they had just charged them to be listed in.

Recently?

How a lawyer in America got jailed for legally fighting against(and defeating) an American multi-national oil company that polluted the Amazon and more importantly harmed the lives and health of the locals with the pollution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OtIAZMqrZE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger

Here in Sweden we currently have the problem that hospitals are understaffed and keeping wages of nurses so low that a lot of nurses quit and leave the others with an even crazier workload so the hospitals buy nurses semi permanently from temp agencies that cost multiple times more and the rental nurses have better pay and agreements of overtime and such. We had a well functioning health care but then the privatisation of everything and selling out communally owned services to private profit making schemes since the 90s. Because our government has been dominated by right wing market liberals and "sossehöger" - social democrats that jump on right wing populism to stay in power when they can rather than being consistent in left wing ideals.

Fucking end the market liberal experiment already. "The market solves all problems" - yeah, of it's own interest which is how to squeeze out more profits regardless the how and how low it stoops.

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Hong Kong's subway system offers fare discounts if you use the entrances/exits that require you to walk through a mall, as part of their monetisation of spaces required to access public services

Microloans, also called microfinances. Very popular in developing countries in South Asia, and also the same thing that is responsible for the suicide epidemic of farmers in India. With high interest rates and fixed time-period constraints, they're the most cruel and fucked up things to ever exist, they're worse than indentured serfdom.

Today I heard Meta has laid off workers because they brought their own food for lunch instead of buying it from the company cafeteria.

A more recent example comes from the med-tech giant Abbott Labs, which used DMCA 1201 to suppress a tool that allowed people with diabetes to link their glucose monitors to their insulin pumps, in order to automatically calculate and administer doses of insulin in an "artificial pancreas." -eff.org

We joke about someday having to jailbreak our own organs, but we're basically already there.

An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk. Then its maker refused repairs.

Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will

I cannot find the exact quote but it was something like "If you don't grow, you're dying". This is the source of all enshittification. Companies are being forced by VCs to increase revenue every year to meet unreasonable revenue goals just to satisfy a handful of investors.

I see a private ambulance service driving around my town occasionally and it always makes my skin crawl

Motorcycle airbag vests that will not work if you aren't up-to-date on the subscription payments when you have a crash...

“Vote with your wallet” means more money gets you more votes.

Some users leaving Reddit/instagram/twitter is not a problem, especially considering network effects, but some advertisers leaving is a crisis.

A peanut with a top hat and a monocle selling you other peanuts, to eat.

That you can lease prison labor.

I once read that there are some states in the U.S. where firefighters don't put out fires in houses that don't pay a monthly subscription.

My boss once said to a group of new joinees including me," Eventually you will be able to afford subscription to all the streaming services."

suppressing wages and social housing so that starvation and homelessness make labour cheaper

Charging money for supplies after people had there whole lives uprooted by a natural disaster. Cough cough hurricane helene

Some random company that sells fruits overthrowing another country's government; it's so ludicrous I'd say it's too silly to be the plot of a serious movie and like no no, actually this ludicrous story is actually real.

Owning more than one home

The purposeful degradation of repair.

That person who was in a car that ended up crossing three lanes, hitting a pole and then hitting a tree. They declined an ambulance because they were scared of the ambulance bill - then got a bill for $150 for refusing the ambulance. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The US Empire.

There's this advert on YouTube shorts for some therapy app or service whatever and it's just vulgar.

It's this bearded dude filming himself washing his face and I guess the camera POV is on his basin or whatever.

The whole thing is meant to come across as though he is an influencer that you've not heard of, that this is a random video of his that you've stumbled across, and that this is just an observation that he's made about therapy that he's relaying to you whilst he exfoliates his putrid flesh.

I've nothing against therapy at all, but this commodification of it, and the way it dishonestly tries to sell it to you is simply capitalism all over. Most people probably need therapy because of the trauma this system has caused on people and yet here it is trying to sell you the cure as well.

To top it all off, watching this 2010s hipster relic scrub his face with soap is nail curlingly vile and I have no idea what the angle is other than trying to make this not appear to be an advert.

"In the interest of user safety and security..."

Always before some dumb new draconian shit

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