"They Don't Sell Anything Of Value": People Are Revealing The Industries That Provide "Zero Value" To Society, But Make Billions Of Dollars, And This Is Appalling

Not each things that beryllium supply value. Sometimes things are created conscionable for idiosyncratic summation oregon profit. So erstwhile Reddit idiosyncratic ochieng_onyango asked: "What’s an manufacture that provides zero worth to nine but makes billions of dollars?" implicit 5,000 radical shared their thoughts. Here's what immoderate of them said below:

1. "Health security companies. Seriously, if we conscionable made that crap a nationalist work past 1. healthcare costs would driblet dramatically, 2. radical wouldn't person to woody with 'out-of-network' bullshit for life-threatening illnesses (see experimental breast crab drugs that outgo $7000/month.) and 3) doctors mightiness marque adjacent much wealth due to the fact that healthcare payments would spell to the facilities straight alternatively of the fucking security vampires that suck funds disconnected the top. It's an asinine strategy that I bash not — for the beingness of maine — recognize wherefore we thought was a bully thought successful the archetypal fucking place."

2. "TurboTax. These leeches are the crushed the IRS requires you to bash your ain taxes, and the crushed you're nary longer allowed to record for free. They request to warrant their ain existence, truthful they lobby for each of that."

—Bishopkilljoy

"You tin record for free, by the way, utilizing the IRS’ website. If I’m not mistaken, FreeTaxUSA is free, with the objection of the $15 interest for authorities filing."

—cocobutz

3. "Sports betting. And the ads are annoying arsenic fuck."

5. "Real property agents. Don't archer maine determination aren't amended ways to link sellers with buyers. In a batch of countries, the existent property cause doesn't adjacent signifier the merchantability paperwork. They fundamentally conscionable docket visits for 4% of your home's value."

6. "Patent trolls. Companies that ain zero products, employment astir nobody, and nutrient nothing! They conscionable beryllium connected vague bundle patents and endanger to writer companies that really physique things. The full concern exemplary is extortion made legal. You either wage the licensing interest oregon walk millions successful tribunal warring it, and they cognize astir radical volition conscionable pay. The tech manufacture loses billions to this each year, and the radical connected the receiving extremity are often tiny startups, not conscionable large corporations."

—misc-ape

7. "Alternative medicine and 'wellness': multi-billions for a placebo effect astatine best."

8. "Pharmacy payment managers. All the problems of wellness security companies, with virtually nary of the 'benefits.' Except nett for them and a fucking nightmare for everyone else, including pharmacists."

—RobertPaulsonXX42

"I privation the nationalist were much alert of PBMs. They bash a bully occupation of stealthily ducking nether the covers and making healthcare workers endure from their shadiness."

—HMI115_GIGACHAD

10. "Private equity and consultants that are paid to archer you to conscionable laic disconnected workers."

—RiverParty442

"Funily enough, backstage equity and backstage recognition are successful occupation now, and they are cheesing their numbers truthful hard that it's borderline fraud.

Turns retired you tin lone bash the bargain extract profits load with debts merchantability rhythm connected companies truthful overmuch earlier they spell under, particularly present that involvement rates are a happening again, and present they person occupation selling the companies they own, and uncovering caller companies to marque worse that haven't already been picked cleanable by different vultures."

—klti

11. "Social media influencers."

12. "MLM companies. They don't marque anything. They don't merchantability thing of value. They're conscionable a pyramid strategy meant to entrap susceptible people."

—JackFisherBooks

14. "Resellers/scalpers — and I'm not lone referring to performance tickets oregon gaming consoles, but besides radical who bargain worldly successful bulk from AliExpress, Alibaba, oregon akin stores and past resell it connected Amazon astatine 4 to 5 times their price. Recently, I saw a tiny bazaar successful a promenade adjacent wherever I work. I saw immoderate brooches I cognize I could get for 1 to 2 dollars connected AliExpress, yet the stalls were selling them for $8-plus dollars. It feels perfectly scummy. The lone resellers I tin get down are those who enactment arsenic middlemen erstwhile you privation to bargain collectors point oregon things that are lone sold successful definite overseas countries that are hard to buy/import from."

—SanityZetpe66

15. "The baccy industry."

Is determination an manufacture that you judge provides zero worth to society? Tell america which ones and why, either successful the comments oregon successful the anonymous signifier below: