I posted this question to Twitter and Instagram yesterday and crowd-sourced a great list of scams.
In no particular order:
Multilevel marketing schemes
Democracy/America/Elected officials
Elon Musk
Tesla
Hyperloop
Expensive coffins
Scientology
Boomers
College textbooks written by the professor
Updated editions of college textbooks written by the professor you’re forced to buy despite no substantive change to the original text
Fiji water/artisanal water/alkaline water
Ivanka and Jared Kushner
Shipping and Handling charges on TV infomercial products
Tesla’s full self-driving
Student loan servicers
TSA
War on drugs
War on terror
MSRP
Electoral college
Rental car/truck/storage insurance
Ticketmaster fees
Most penny stocks
Trump’s tax cuts
Gwen Stefani’s “music”
Trickle down economics
Shaun King
For profit universities
This will be a running list. Add your suggestions in the comments below!
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