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What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore? (lemm.ee)

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[-] mister_monster@monero.town 4 points 1 year ago

Printing money.

[-] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Profit.

In the ideal situation, resources are transformed into goods with zero waste and with fair compensation for every person involved in that process. Any expense outside of costs and pay for the people involved is either inevitable inefficiency due to our imperfect technology or the laws of physics, or it is some sort of scam, and thus profit itself is a scam.

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[-] dartos@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

Income tax

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