Health Insurance that covers next to nothing but costs a fortune anyway.
☝️ recently got a covid test that based on all my research beforehand, it should have been covered except for $10 I would pay.
Jokes on me, it actually cost me $200 they charged to my credit card two weeks later. I didn't even get to know the price at the time I needed medical care.
Sometimes other countries make fun of America for things they don't understand. Not on this one, America deserves every bit of mocking it gets for it's medical coverage atrocity.
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_DonzigerDonziger’s story is heartbreaking and infuriating, and I’m continually disappointed that so few people are familiar with his story and what the courts did to him. It’s one of the clearest examples of judicial corruption and the power and benefits that are afforded to corporations and almost never extended to the people fighting for what’s right and just.
To be fair, usury is much older plague than capitalism, but it's been one of capitalism roots, and capitalism cranked it up incredibly.
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.
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.
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."
Motorcycle airbag vests that will not work if you aren't up-to-date on the subscription payments when you have a crash...
Ugh I dunno if I just noticed it but the spread of "only x small payments!" financing for the smallest purchases can't be a good sign
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.
A peanut with a top hat and a monocle selling you other peanuts, to eat.
