On this capitalist society, it is no secret that many industries throw their morals proper out the window.
Effectively, Reddit consumer u/attilabodnar just lately posed the question, “What business is lots shadier than it appears?” And there have been so many nice responses! Listed here are among the top-voted solutions:
1.“Avocado farms. Most of the farms in Central America are taken over by the cartel due to how a lot cash is in promoting avocados.”
“The US briefly avocado imports from Mexico final yr after a USDA inspector was threatened.”
2.“Nursing houses. Homeowners want a yacht. One nurse for 50 previous individuals it’s!”
“Fifty previous individuals at $10,000/month is $500,000. The wage for one nursing house worker is $3,000/month, on the excessive facet.”
“My mother works at one and principally tells me she is hiring a brand new particular person each month. Why would anybody need to clear up previous individuals’s shit for $15/hour after they could make $20/hour at Goal? So my mother, who’s near retirement age, is caught working herself to the bone to cowl shifts as a result of she genuinely cares about her sufferers. She is so burnt out however can’t go away as a result of she by no means made sufficient to retire, and he or she is aware of if she leaves, her sufferers will get even worse care in her absence. The corporate principally preys upon her empathy, and it is sick. It breaks my coronary heart.”
3.“Recycling. Quite a lot of stuff will get shipped to Asia or simply dumped in a landfill.”
“I work for a recycling firm; we’re an aggregator. We absorb massive quantities of recyclable supplies and kind and bundle them (largely by bailing if it is used materials). Then, we transfer off trailer a great deal of single grades or generally blended a great deal of smaller quantities of upper worth supplies. It is commodity buying and selling with waste. The worth of various supplies fluctuates, and that is principally what determines how recyclable one thing is: whether or not one thing is well worth the return to deal with it.”
4.“The wig business. There are just about solely a pair wig makers on the planet, they usually repackage the wigs based on what firm you purchase from. So a Beyoncé at one firm could be one other firm’s Auburn blonde. Additionally, once I labored for an organization, we had a lifetime assure on the wigs, so individuals would have it for just a few years, then return it. All we did was wash it in an industrial washer, restyle it, then promote it as new.”
“I’ve heard tales of shady companies manipulating and conning most cancers sufferers into overpriced wigs, solely to promote them a product that does not match effectively after which refuse to regulate or exchange it.”
5.“The habit remedy business. There are some good applications, however there are additionally a variety of very grasping, evil individuals who capitalize on offering you remedy, you then relapsing, and getting you into the cycle of remedy/relapse/remedy. Very shady.”
“It is referred to as physique brokering. There are some actually good documentaries on it.”
6.“Jokes apart, forestry can truly be kinda shady. Massive companies planting huge monocultures and destroying ecosystems to allow them to offset their carbon and greenwash their manufacturers is the proper reply to this query.”
7.“Funeral enterprise. Guilting little previous girls into spending cash they do not have to present their husbands a funeral ‘they deserve.'”
“A preferred information present did an important exposé on the abuses of funeral house companies years in the past. It was sickening how weak individuals had been manipulated into losing enormous sums of cash. My mother and father each obtained cremated in consequence. There was a video of funeral house salespeople recommending costly brand-name mattresses for a casket.”
8.“School textbook business.”
“One among my professors wrote his personal textbook for his music historical past course. It was simply 650-ish pages of bullet level notes, and it value, like, $100.”
“And the faculties will fortunately cooperate. My spouse’s nursing program required they purchase all texts by way of the varsity retailer. Additionally they needed to present up the primary day of sophistication with proof of buy from the college retailer. No shopping for used, even the identical version, no borrowing, no sharing. Value greater than a month’s hire to get these textbooks. Fuck that total business.”
9.“Realtors. They’re a cartel with little motivation to truly help their purchasers.”
“I believe Gen Z goes to interrupt realtors. It is onerous sufficient shopping for a house in our era. Rattling close to not possible for most individuals. I used to be solely capable of buy one due to army advantages. Shopping for is not the issue, although; promoting is. Once you promote, you’re accountable for each brokers’ commissions. I am at the moment in the midst of promoting my house and anticipate to pay north of $40k in realtor charges. Absolute canine shit.”
10.“Palm oil business. Quite a lot of displaced orangutans are bought to circuses or collectors.”
11.“Nonprofits. The best way legal guidelines are in the intervening time, a CEO and board of administrators of a nonprofit pays themselves as a lot as they need as an alternative of reinvesting within the nonprofit (establishing new amenities, doing extra outreach, hiring extra employees, and so forth.).”
12.“Clothes donation bins. All of it will get sorted, separated, and bought. The trash will get donated on the very, very naked minimal required. Round 12 years in the past, my previous warehouse landlord had a $50 million enterprise simply sorting the garments. Classic/designer stuff obtained bought for high greenback. Medium high quality bought in bulk. Shitty high quality bought in bales by weight. Rubbish high quality donated.”
“Identical goes for guide donations. All of it will get bought on Amazon, and the trash will get recycled or exported to growing nations. Lower than 5% of PROFITS obtained donated.”
13.“Healthcare (no less than within the US).”
“Healthcare administration and medical health insurance administration, adopted carefully by medical implant/machine/provide gross sales. Frontline suppliers get the shaft.”
“It’s a rip-off. For those who have a look at an itemized checklist of fees from a hospital keep, you’re being overcharged out the ass for each final thing.”
14.“Division of human assets in each business. Regardless of the identify, they aren’t there to assist the staff. They’re there to maintain the employers out of bother.”
15.“Fantastic artwork dealing. Apparently, it is a large, unregulated ‘grey market’ that’s largely about cash laundering.”
16.“Academia is corrupt/shady AF. Adjunct professors are paid peanuts, and the usage of adjuncts is changing into much more frequent. Tenure sucks, however so does adjunct. The politics are RIDICULOUS, particularly on the most elite establishments. You higher fall in line otherwise you’re executed. Tuition has shot up exponentially resulting from federally sponsored scholar loans. The shameless plunging of scholars into crushing debt is a shame.”
“Let’s not get into athletics. The very best paid state worker in most states is often a soccer or basketball coach. Most of those coaches make way over the President of the USA. Additionally they get unimaginable payouts after they get fired.”
“And that is not even touching upon how exploited grad faculty college students are by professors, directors, and establishments that solely care about themselves.”
17.And at last, “The maritime business. Many of the massive firms do issues by the guide and deal with crews effectively as a result of they’re afraid of lawsuits and unions. However many smaller mother and pop firms break legal guidelines and violate security rules with reckless abandon as a result of they’re not as seen and might keep underneath the radar. It’s quite common for a small firm to ask a captain/crew to do one thing unlawful and harmful so as to improve revenue, and for the captain/crew to conform out of concern of dropping their jobs.”
“And that’s simply the US maritime business; sailors from poorer nations who work on ships are sometimes fed little greater than rice and low-cost ramen for months at a time and paid pennies for his or her backbreaking work. I like working tugs for a dwelling, however the business as a complete is rife with shady enterprise.”
Know of every other industries which are surprisingly shady? LMK within the feedback under!
Observe: Some responses have been edited for size and/or readability.
