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[โ€“] humanplayer2@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Working from home, but not being payed rent for the space.

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[โ€“] drq@mastodon.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] TheObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Car insurance Health insurance Dental insurance

All insurance really

Also renewing license plates/licenses

Basically if you need to make a yearly or monthly payment to keep using something it's a scam in my eyes.

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[โ€“] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (17 children)

Getting paid every 2weeks (what the old times told me)

[โ€“] Thorry84@feddit.nl 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really? Is that a thing? Where I live getting paid per month is the norm. Some people get paid per 4 weeks instead of per month. But I don't know of any trade where payment per week or twee weeks is the norm. Stuff like rent, mortgage, water, gas and electric etc. is all done per month. So it makes sense to match the income cycle to the bill cycle.

Puts living paycheck to paycheck in perspective. I can image not getting ends to meet on a monthly basis. But if you can't afford the next week, you have basically nothing.

I know there is a lot of overhead with payroll where I live, so if companies would have to do it more often, that would be pretty expensive. There are a lot of rules and regulations, so it takes a lot of work to do it right.

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[โ€“] NormalC@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Proprietary (nonfree) Software.

People still peddle the "muh intellectual property" and "I gotta feed my kids in this fast-paced economy" even though these are irrelevant to software freedom.

An alarming majority (at least in the US) are ignorant of this conflict at all. The money is so distorted in the IT industry that it's tantamount to theft. The skeletons in Congress don't have a single clue.

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[โ€“] GhostCowboy76@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

The Mormons.

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