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Everything is a scam now
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this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2026
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My business works almost entirely organically. We charge a fair rate. Not the cheapest, not the most expensive. We never broke our ethical code. You'd be surprised how many people scoff at me.
As much as everything is a scam, a vast majority of the customers are asking to be scammed. Should I sell the cheapest shit, cash out, and walk away while the work performed for the customer breaks down within a few months?
People don't get it. Still. It's mostly the consumer's fault for not choosing businesses with ethics. People chose quantity. That's not a decent business person's fault. Now, we're here and very few businesses with ethics exist.
Whose fault do you seriously think that is? The person with the money who always had a choice where they could purchase a product or is it the competing businesses who offer a product? It only becomes the businesses fault when there's no choice left.
There were choices. Choices were made. Now everyone is bitching about how there's no good businesses left. So start giving your money to decent people.
It's just like voting. You vote for the scummiest people. Wtf do you expect? A paradise? You're not getting a paradise and you're not getting a good product. You.
But just like voting the choices you vote for have incentives to rig the system in their own favor. It's hard to vote with your wallet as they say because the companies are so big they will either lobby for laws to make themselves the only viable option or they will just buy up their competitors.
For example I always try to favor local businesses so when I moved I signed up for the local bank. It was small and had one or two branches. The next year a larger regional ank bought them. Then a larger national bank bought them. Next thing I knew it was bank of America somehow.
I would have never voted for any of that. So it's not really the fault of the consumer
Congratulations on being able to run an completely ethical business - it can't be easy. I say that non-sarcastically.
I think one of the many issue which has lead to the state we are in now is that it's often impossible to tell the true quality or value of a product before buying it. So simply buying something more expensive is no guarantee of a better product, because the optimal strategy for an unethical business is to sell the cheapest possible product at the highest possible volume x price.