Time sink

If you do not have time to waste, avoid this Reddit thread. It is the first time I have seen a comment thread go viral.

It’s interesting how much of this stuff I already knew:

• Funeral industry is total scam …
• Regular and organic milk is taken from same tete
• … we should avoid touching anything but sheets on bed in a motel.

More interesting stuff is tech talk …

• Software programmers and doctors relying on Google …
• Most investment managers living off inside trading …
• 90% of all tax returns are simple and should be done by the taxpayer. Now it can be told.
• Mutual funds fees eat the retirement account alive before we ever get to enjoy it. (Stick it in savings and don’t touch it. Even low-interest accounts are better than professionally managed ones.)
• I too got scammed royal by a local mechanic shop and am embarrassed that I was so trusting. Now I am leery of all mechanics … Duh. Most of the world already knew this.

Much of it has to do with large companies who are double-faced, one prettied up for the public by PR and ad agencies, the other a monster ghoul that bleeds employees because they can’t quit or are easily replaced. I may never go to a restaurant again, but if I do, I will be really nice to everyone there. They not only deserve it anyway, but can also get validation in their own ways.

One intriguing entry has Apple stores acting as money laundering fronts, drug money being used to buy up iPhones that are then resold around the world. Knowingly done. That’s why they are often short on inventory, says the commenter.

It’s a time sink. If you have work to do today, avoid this thread. I stumbled on it last night around 8 PM and did not cover more than a third of it.