We are “locked into a system of driving that is meant to be more enjoyable but isn’t."
  • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 days ago

    Tipping is part of the US meta-shit-culture that is really just we are a business-supporting country that happens to have citizens in it.

    • Instead of paying restaurant and service workers, have the customer pay via tipping!
    • Instead of having social programs, our corpo media promotes “charity” and GoFundMe stories so we can all feel personally guilty/responsible for taking care of each other for medical expenses or any life altering event
    • Instead of the rich or corpos paying taxes, they’ll just raise ours
    • Every new thing created, be it a service or an object or whatever, starts out as a thing, and then within a few years, there are fees upon fees and services upon services inserted in between due to lack of regulations.
      • Gotta buy a car at a dealer, gotta pay dealer fees, gotta pay license and registration, get tricked into extended warranty, gotta pay for parts, gotta pay for software services in the car.
      • Want Internet? Gotta pay the one company available in the area, they then charge for the modem, they charge all the taxes they are taxed and pass onto you, they create bogus billing fees that are just so they can advertise one price and charge another, and that another price will change frequently.
      • Want a doctor’s visit? Well we’ve inserted your insurance company, medical billing department, webs of codes that have various prices for the same drug or procedure, third party insurances tacked on, billing rules that might be calendar year or not, requirements that you can only choose to change your insurance once a year, “tax free” payment methods like HSA/FSA that have certain requirements around them, only allowing certain types of procedures under certain conditions for insurance to allow them, billing most preventative things as “diagnostic” even when they’re to prevent things like steep medical bills in the future which is the very definition of preventative.

    United States culture is a country by the Corpo, for the Corpo, with we dregs doing all the work for them and everything is 60 steps so you’re too busy to realize it.