What's SECRETLY Just A GIANT SCAM?

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[@Keiji555]

Ah, Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin. The modern Amway style MLM Ponzi scheme.

[@j.ackermann9110]

No offense but that dude talking about the Internet has no idea how any of that works.

[@OrrinArthurs]

The story about the internet usage seems to be conflating quite a few things with each other. For instance, he says he would pay a fee for add free internet. He already does he pays his internet provider for that. Each individual website has nothing to do with the internet providers themselves. So you would have to pay every individual websites for a ad Free service. Or those websites would be getting no money without the ads. That is why advertising is so prevalent on the internet. If every website you went to got their money from a subscription, we would all be going on a lot less websites. This does not mean I am in favor of ads on the internet. I'm just saying his solution of paying a fee to have ad free internet means nothing. Who are you paying this fee to?

[@generaljakeb9230]

Never mind the fact that, you could be charged some other ridiculous fee that they could justify for you to pay for.

[@andrewactingwayne]

Hmm... 🤔 .. .. would stand to reason you should pay the 'person' responsible for creating the internet. So... Al Gore! 😝😝😝

[@adamplummer2190]

Except al gore didn't invent the internet. It's been around for a very very long time, started with university's and businesses.

[@pouse4]

Pet insurance comes to mind for scams. Beside being forced to use an approved vet, which may or not be the closest one to you. I swear I never seen someone get successful claim. They're happy to take our money, but when it comes to pay up they'll find the smallest of reason to deny you. It's better just to put what you would of paid in a saving account and use it whenever your pet does need to see the doctor.

[@robertajill3070]

14:20. In Canada, student loans can indeed be discharged by a bankruptcy. The debt must be more than seven years old from the time of graduation. Meet that requirement and the debt is treated like any other. Of course, Canadian student loans are issued by the federal and provincial governments, NOT private lenders which probably changes the rules.

[@DarthEquus]

The one about money.... It sounded like the prelude for a Cryptocurrency pitch.

[@ferretqueen2908]

"Entry level jobs" that require 5+ years of experience and some fancy certificate for entry level wages.

[@TheNewChevyRoll48]

Add insult to injury by also requiring a Bachelor's Degree

[@Foxfire-xq5ij]

Recycling plastic is a big scam. Very little plastic is actually recyclable , and even less is actually recyled.

[@MrDeano-eu9rg]

It CAN be done correctly...it's just not. Almost all plastic cases in my country now have ratings on them

[@Miller54K]

College degrees that aren't STEM or medical.

[@jimdob6528]

Medical is generally considered part of STEM, and a fair number of those jobs could easily be done with a certificate and some job training.

[@ArchmageMarlock]

Video topic is "What's SECRETLY Just A GIANT SCAM?" Oh, 'College degrees that aren't STEM or medical.'? That's a groundbreaking revelation! Did you, by chance, attend a college that teaches the art of missing the point? It’s intriguing how this flies in the face of the sheer basics of life, not to mention the heaps of data from the U.S. Department of Education or Dept. of Labor. You know, the minor details you're perfectly allowed to research-if, of course, you know how to research. Being educated is an arduous journey, a perpetual one indeed. If only there were institutions dedicated to teaching the fundamentals of critical thinking and discerning fact from fiction. Oh wait, that's right-COLLEGE! If you didn't catch that, well, you might have missed more than just a few classes. Also, what are Lawyers to you? You fail into the trap soldiers do. They think the Military should run things. Objective thinking is Hard. However, limiting education is, to me, nearly always stupid! Exceptions apply.

[@ArchmageMarlock]

To strike a blow for objectivity. My Counterpoint. My law degree, that places me at the bottom of a six figure salary and career ladder, is not a STEM Program. I seem to be crushing it WITHOUT this STEM Degree. My work saves children around the world. My undergrad was Criminal Justice. College should teach you how to understanding multiple sets of information and walks of life. Failure to understand this led to people that can not understand why the world rejects them. You, and us all, should be good at more then one thing! Everyone! College should be mandated!

[@RampageRich]

I would throw law in there too

[@IsYitzach]

@@RampageRich I would not, but I'm not so certain about the state bar associations.

[@KenshiImmortalWolf]

so the money one, saying we used precious metals is kind of a misnomer, they became precious because we used them for trade and valued them, some places used limestone disks and certain rare shell types where also 'money' for a lot longer then even metals. The concept of a mutually accepted 'currency' is itself no more or less a scam now then it ever was. At one point aluminum was more valuable then gold because it was rarer then gold at the time, now it's so common we use it for cooking. SO anyone who tries to argue money is now a scam cause we don't back it in precious metals or something like that has no idea what money is. Agreeing that gold is valuable is just as valid as agreeing paper slips that denote federal currency is valuable. It only works if everyone agrees to it.

[@Benjamin1986980]

Personally, I wouldn't mind going back to chocolate-based currency like the Aztec. Money literally grows on trees

[@uchytjes10]

Yep. People who believe money is a scam have a incredibly simplistic view of how society works. Wouldn't be surprised if they also believe taxation is theft.

[@im3phirebird81]

@@uchytjes10 Taxation is theft.

[@Mavendow]

@@uchytjes10 Fractional reserve (and whatever we currently have, since it's not fractional due to being 0%) isn't legit, but not all money is like that.

[@chaylahskinner9390]

Having anything to trade to the bank was the original point. The person could take their slip of paper back to the bank for their items - much like a pawn shop. And if all else failed, the bank could sell or trade those items. So technically they had something to trade - not just thin air. There was a physical product involved. Now banks are just corporations making money for themselves out of thin air. Money is a nice easy way to simplify trade. It works and I wouldn't call it a scam.

[@robertajill3070]

Re: The BBB…. THANK YOU!! I was a self-employed magician for years in the 90s through to the early 2010s. I was regularly solicited by them to join. The prices were prohibitively expensive and implied with every refusal was a “Well…..okay. But we’ll tell anyone who asks that you refused to join. Are you SURE you want us to say that?” Like OP said, little more than a Mafia-esq protection racket. And let’s not forget, they are a self-appointed body who answer to no one. Who do you complain to about the BBB? Unless they have done something plainly illegal (as opposed to simply unethical) you have no recourse. A clear case of the fox guarding the hen house. ‘

[@MartyMcfry_]

The guy talking about paying internet... tell me you live in a first world country without telling me that you are in a first world country

[@shanelenham8736]

WTF Who decides that 12 years old is an acceptable age of cinsent?😮

[@aaronsondag8347]

This was standard practice for almost all countries in the world for hundreds if not thousands of years. In only the last like 200-300 years has this age been getting phased out.

[@SergioBocanegra]

At worst i tolerate 15 not that is still a stretch.

[@Foxfire-xq5ij]

The older I get the more I realize that children, preteens, and teenaged should not be able to legally give consent for things like smoking, drinking, gambling, alcohol, etc. The older I get the more I realize how immature and stupid I was when younger.

[@TheNewChevyRoll48]

EDP445

[@andrewactingwayne]

​@aaronsondag8347 Yeah.... back when a 12 year old both knew how & could run a whole farm & or go work in a mine etc & be able to handle said responsibilities. Dumb*ss 12yr olds now, can't even competently feed themselves with a microwave & a stove 3 ft away from them let alone actually deal with responsibilities bigger than rules like "Do NOT eat Tide laundry pods" etc So there's that.....

[@aaronsondag8347]

The medical insurance one is both right and wrong. There is a reason why most of the most powerful people on earth have their surgeries for many things done in the states and not other countries. The US health care system is a mess but many other wealthy countries also have problems with theirs not to mention the US pays for almost all the military protection for the European countries where if they had to pay for that themselves then their healthcare would be even worse.

[@Mavendow]

As German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck said in the 1880s after passing the world's first universal healthcare system, controlling the people by controlling their health is a key benefit of nationalized healthcare. That sure worked out well for Germany in the early 1900s, didn't it?

[@deathmastersful]

A reason Healthcare insurance is so bad is because there is no over site due to these insurance companies lobbying politicians, working with these horrible pharma companies and taking advantage of people. Did you know the government subsidizes health insurances and they still overcharge people constantly. It’s to the point that doctors don’t try anymore because outside factors control the practice more than any hospital or group of doctors. Healthcare in America is so amazing is because the practice is trialed in America, tested and perfected enough that the risks are minimal. Other countries start it earlier, because they use version 1.2 while in america they don’t allow it to be released till atleast version 1.5

[@adamplummer2190]

​@@deathmastersfulissue with regulations is backfiring. Obamacare had a clause that insurance can't charge more then a set percentage over cost (I forget the number). Use to be insurance company's fought over inflated bills. Now, they encourage it because they make more money on it. Think of it this way. 10% of $100 means they can charge $110 and make $10. But at $150 they now make $15. So they pay more so they can make more, vs fighting to keep costs down to help everyone. It back fired like all laws by all political parties.

[@Oddballkane]

Apple the actual items themselves are only worth £100 but they sell it for 1000 just because of the logo on the item.

[@picklerick4944]

iPhone 15 costs Apple $450 to make

[@nathancphillips2497]

Biggiest scam must be people reading other peoples comments for KZbin right?

[@Mavendow]

The fractional reserve ratio being 0% is better than you think. See, banks can now lend under a new monetary theory where loans are counted as both a liability and and asset. This makes the reserve requirement entirely superfluous. Under this theory, banks can not only print money, but they can also create a secondary asset which similarly prints money. Next, that asset can be used to print even more money. It's a circular loop. Lol.

[@chaylahskinner9390]

which actually makes it worse. It's false accounting, bad math, and makes them money while screwing over it's customers by charging high interest on loans while paying almost no interest on deposits.

[@Mavendow]

​@@chaylahskinner9390 It is, but my comment would vanish if I didn't phrase it positively.

[@cjxgraphics]

0:40 Now, you pay for the product, AND you are the product.

[@klocugh12]

Crypto isn't a scam PER SE. But plenty of scammers use it as method of payment due to difficulty of tracking. Crypto is intended to be an just an alternative currency. It definitely has issues, in particular with environmental considerations, but what OP says, is not it.

[@kendowolf1]

Glad someone called out CS

[@vickiesmith3021]

Thank you so much for your video.

[@GamerMage2k-kl4iq]

Inflation. People put imaginary ideas of everything becoming more and more expensive in a world where wages can not keep up and it’s resulting in only the 1% being able to live ANY form of comfortable while everyone else suffers. Also companies use it as an excuse to try and get more money form people who more often than not can’t even afford it unless they make a lot of money themselves…

[@kj6446]

Now in fairness to the vatican...NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

[@amyx231]

I’d be all for taxing spammers. Robo emailers. Make the Internet an utility - free for honest use (monthly fee for connection), fee for use in irregular ways.

[@adamplummer2190]

Not how internet could ever work. For starters need the Internet lines and servers to provide the Internet. Next, every site needs their own servers, workers, developers, internet, and power. Parts of the Internet already are gov funded fyi. Been some grants to help with putting in fiber in many areas.

[@patrickprafke4894]

Story one: You do pay for the internet. Thats what your ISP is for.

[@bluemew22]

The US Government, if not the very idea of government in general

[@im3phirebird81]

govern ment.... mind control

[@IsYitzach]

I'll go with "Leviathan" by Hobbes on this one. Not that government can't be done better. Just no government sounds like is a terrible idea. Government will reform shortly after its abolition.

[@GBTwelveSixteen]

There's a certain irony about bitching about the internet, on the internet.

[@Radiostationen]

One scam that comes to mind would be of going to college because it does not have the same meaning as it did along time ago of higher learning because a lot of people that go to college would be going into debt that’s how high the cost is and that there is a good chance that you won’t be able to find a job that you may have studied for in college and because that the job market is so bad that a lot of people want people that have a college education that they would look over better people that don’t have a college education, but they are better qualified for the position I am not saying anything against people that want to go to college and pursuit of higher learning because intelligence is a gift that should be for everyone

[@GabrielHenrique-pq5bo]

I have a feeling that the guy talking about the internet doesnt know much of how it works

[@leland_da_based2784]

Crypto one was misinformed

[@Mavendow]

Crypto has endless potential, and all of that potential is being efficiently squandered. Meanwhile, the last 200 straight failures are considered "FUD." Until everything inevitably blows up. Again. Humans are _amazing_ at squandering their own potential for the sake of selfish greed.

[@Roguecooley]

EVs aren’t environmentally friendly as everyone thinks. The way to make them environmentally friendly is to spend extra money on solar panels and a charging station for your house. Which you have to have a nice chunk of money to get or go into debt to pay for everything.

[@dreysmith8160]

Wait till they find out how they get the metal for those big@$$ batteries

[@IsYitzach]

Even if you don't, they're still an improvement during normal operation thanks to economies of scale. You go from millions of gas generators to hundreds of generators. That will be a huge improvement in the carbon fuel efficiency. Now about those metals that the batteries are built from... Those are a problem, but a fixed one at time of manufacture.

[@itsthefuzz]

So nomrol we dont even realize it 12:38

[@JadedMax]

Weddings

[@chaylahskinner9390]

specifically the idea that they have to be so fancy and expensive. Buy any nice outfit you like, take some friends and go to the court house. Get married at the court then all go out to dinner. The friends can pay for the couple as the wedding gift, The stupid bachelor and bachelorette parties are getting totally out of control too.

[@the_monolith5]

Fushigi balls

[@Maintenance_Mark]

So glad to hear someone speaking honestly about the Catholic church. The history is absolutely disgusting and disgraceful. Mother Teresa was a terrible human being that enjoyed the suffering of others.

[@Keiji555]

Well, someone else who is speaking "honestly". It's really an old canard that people use to toss the baby with the bathwater. And the history isn't as disgusting and disgraceful as many would think. Now, if you want to speak ugly religious systems, take a look at Islam. That makes all the sins Catholicism has done look like My Little Pony. And don't get me started on Communism. (The Atheist version of it. I don't think we need to discuss Stalin or Mao.) I mean, people use the Canadian Residential schools as an old beatstick, without considering the entire story, and of all the groups the church was the lesser of all the evils presented. First off, the Natives sold each other, and were willing to take food from the mouths of their own children for drugs, and saving their own skin. Next, we have the women who essentially got the power of life and death over women and children for two provinces, and influence over that for the entire nation called the Famous Five, who loved the Syphilis project, and were Hitler fangirls, which were the government. Between the Eugenics Hitler fangirls, and the church, the church was the better choice. The church also worked to prevent Royals and Nobles to get too much out of control, in order to curb violent tendencies within them, and would drill some limitations in how they behaved, thinking there was a being far greater than them, in order to get them to behave. Situations like the Black Prince from England trying to genocide Spain and France got the ire of the Church to get involve and punish the King of England, putting him in line. And if you use the situation with Hernan Cortez, go take a look at what kind of nuts the Azteks were. Now, how about we get back to the "Religion of Peace". Care to discuss that?

[@andrewactingwayne]

​@@Keiji555 The pope's personal meeting hall, where he dictates out to the "church" from within the Vatican is a serpents face on the interior & architecturally designed to model a serpents head from the exterior.... Don't be too quick to back up the not so good ol catholic church, whom mind you for decades, shuffled various priests here and there after both being caught for & or multitudes of allegations of ped0f ilia... So there's that too Stop following religion. Follow Jesus Christ!

[@YayPancakess]

Hi Rufus :)

[@WayToTheTwilight]

The morman church for sure

[@kingthe13]

Take in the fact 20 percent is the usa and there neighbor canada isnt even in the 10 percent like wtf is all that power going to

[@deathmastersful]

Crypto with no means other then purchasing it is a scam which is why bitcoin does so well. You can mine it yourself, purchase it yourself or purchase it from someone else. It’s also supported by the block chain so there is no way to truly artificially inflate the market. Now if the internet were to crash and burn. Then yeah, you screwed. But I can see the point of it being a scam. Crypto only has the value we give it, which might turn it into the money of the future

[@Kaziglu1]

Life

[@LibertarianUSA1982]

Marriage for men

[@vesasutinen5958]

College

[@generatormike]

Covid

[@im3phirebird81]

If you know you know. And people who only knew after 2022 are most likely still in denial and not helping, because the schemes are still going on.

[@Mavendow]

Safe and Effective I found out yesterday those words were also used in an advertising campaign for asbestos-filtered cigarettes. Stunning to learn the history of the phrase.

[@IsYitzach]

7 million dead people will disagree with you. The US lost something like 2 years off the expected lifespan in the pandemic.

[@msarilyn7677]

Religion.

[@DavidJones-bl5gu]

What is this nonsense about we don’t pay for the Internet XD lol disconnected form realty XD you pay for you phone it give you internet you pay an internet company it give you internet if you don’t have money you don’t get access to internet XD

[@Megalon-qc8pf]

18 sEcOnDs AnD nO vIeWs. BlUd FeLl OfF

[@Dallass]

12 minutes and no likes? Blud fell off. 😈💀

[@coastguyd]

eyeglasses. they are something we need but there is only one company we all are forced to buy from. they should cost 20-50$ , last time i paid over 800 for 2 pairs

[@chaylahskinner9390]

I wish mine were only $800 lol Get your prescription and then buy the glasses online. You can get nice ones for $50.

[@masterq134]

I know you copy paster your descriptions but at least put the name of the game in there.

[@playetplayer9103]

what about the money given to your allies in wars that you have no business that only benefit those business empires in terms of scams, or the fact you cannot criticize or question your greatest ally getting billons all the time because you are bad for something that happened over 80 years ago or more