Amazing Rip-Offs

There are some obvious rip-offs in this fucking world that are not just regular rip-offs, but like really, really, really amazing rip-offs.  And some of them are so ridiculous that I have no fucking idea why the people stand for it.  Really, like at what point do we - as consumers - come together and say “No.  This is a rip-off.  This is fucking bullshit and I will not take it anymore.”

Here’s are a few fucking rip-offs that need to be addressed ASAP:

1. College Text Books.  Okay, this is a dated rip-off.  When I was in college, you had to buy real books for each and every class.  And these mother fuckers weren’t cheap. But the expense wasn’t really the scam.  The scam was that you always had to buy the most recent “edition” of the text book.  And a lot of the text books were written by the professor of the class that you needed to buy the text book for.  Yeah, that fuck face would change a couple words, and just like that, a new edition was released and the value of the previous edition went down faster than your slut mother during her first semester in college.  Not sure how this all works today with the whole internet thing, but I eventually came to a rather clever solution - I’d get the class syllabus, go to the college bookstore, buy the book, go to the collage library, photocopy the chapters that I needed for the semester (based on the syllabus), then go return the text book in the same day.  You see, you could return the text book for the full amount if you returned it within 24 hours of purchase.  Eat my dick college text books.

   
   

2. Prescription Eyeglasses.  Fun fact: over the course of your lifetime you’ll pay more for regular upgrades to your prescription frames and lenses than you would if you simply gouged out your own fucking eyeballs, then went to the emergency room to stop the bleeding - pay the ER bill and be done with eyeball expenses.  I may have just made that fact up, but the truth remains that the cost of fucking frames and lenses is insane.  Insurance doesn’t help much because they still base their reimbursements on the prices of colonial eyeglass prescriptions made out of broken glass and buffalo bones.  Yet, we as a public just continue to sit back in our chair as the eyeglass dude puts less than two ounces of plastic on our faces, then sits back and smiles and says “how do they feel?”  Go fuck yourself you arrogant scion of overpriced commodities.  

   
   

3. Child Car Seats.  Most of the time you can’t even fucking donate these things.  Do you know why?  Because our society loves to fucking sue each other; liability is an overwhelming force that sends countless, completely functional, child car seats to the landfill.  Sure you always have the option to Facebook Marketplace the thing, but then you walk past the trash bin sitting by the garage on your way to the marketplace meet up location, and then suddenly you realize that the meetup location is beneath an overpass of a stretch of abandoned railroad track and you’re like, “Ahhh…fuck this, I will choose not to be murdered today” and the car seat gets stuffed into the trash can and you walk back into your house, sit down, and put on some fucking cartoon for the kids that you’ve seen over, and over, and over, and over, and then you think to yourself, “Maybe I will go to that marketplace car seat meet up location.” 

   
   

4. School Taxes and Property Taxes.  Okay, I’m not against school taxes.  But I don’t know why I have to pay absurdly high school taxes only for the result to be sub-par educational facilities and underpaid teachers, and then still have to buy “supplies” every school year for my kid.  Not to mention the fact that our society hasn’t yet figured out that “mom ain’t home raising the kids” anymore.  Nope, instead I have to pay more money for “after school care,” because the school day ends like right after fucking lunch time, and mom and dad have to work to pay for life - and school taxes.  In the United States of America, we have a defense budget greater than the GDP of entire nations, but our school teachers gotta buy their own classroom supplies, live pay-check-to-paycheck, and by the time its all said and done, our kids are way dumber than other kids all over the world.  Now, property taxes…I spent $15 on a t-shirt the other day, the tax was about $1.  Do I need to pay this $1 tax again next year, and then again, year after year, like forever?  Nope.  But I sure do if I buy some property.  Fuck you property taxes.

   
   

5. Car Dealers.  They suck fuckity fuckwads.  I have a whole rant about those bitch ass duche bag cocksuckers.  They rip people off all the fucking time and somehow they’re still “a thing.”  I’ll link that rant to this post.  

You know what else is a rip-off? You're fucking mother.