"In my city there was this bike sharing project. Amazing for students and young people. Within 3 days (3!!!) all of the bikes (F@#KING ALL OF THEM) got either stolen or badly damaged."
"State Parks, but more tainted than ruined. My husband and I hiked at two separate state parks this weekend and I was appalled. We saw dog poop, dirty diapers, water bottles, and food wrappers on almost every trail we walked. Also, for the love of God, NOBODY wants to listen to your music. Use headphones, you heathen."
"OG Sudafed."
"Google search. At the time, Google’s algorithm was a breath of fresh air compared to the dog shit Ask Jeeves.
Now its results are just those who paid the most to Google followed by those that paid the most to SEO companies."
"Emotional Support Animals and Service Animals. Contrary to popular belief, they are not the same thing at all and stupid people getting fake ESA’s has bled into it harming people with service animals. Only a medical professional can prescribe an ESA, not a website or “registry” and an ESA is not allowed in public spaces like a service animal. It just allows the animal to live with you in places that usually wouldn’t allow animals or pets."
"There was a big goodwill that had bins, it was the last stop for clothes before they were tossed so they were dirt cheap.
These 20-something resellers would spend their entire days prowling the bins and taking EVERYTHING that was good.
I remember one time they were bringing out new bins and about 20 people lined up around them, and when the buzzers went off they all started digging through the clothes and throwing them around. I got pushed, hit, clothes were taken from my hands, had clothes thrown in my face, and in a span of less than 5 minutes they took all the good stuff. I then saw most of it at a “vintage” fair a week later with the prices jacked up like crazy. One guy had like 40 pairs of vintage denim that he bought for like 3 bucks each marked up to $60+ a pair.
I never went to those bins again, fuck those people."
"At least in my area, “Pick your own” farms. It used to be a way to get seasonal produce in bulk for a low cost because you supplied the labor of picking it.
Then it became trendy to do. Now it is full of people and kids making a mess, damaging plants, picking unripe items or deciding what they picked isn’t “perfect” and throwing it on the ground, and eating huge amounts instead of buying.
Farms have been forced to massively raise prices to compensate for the losses caused by people who have no business being in the field."
"Antibiotics.
Great for dealing with bacterial infections, not so good at dealing with viruses, and now we have antibiotic-resistant bacteria because of overuse."
"Every goddamed app on the planet wanting to have you turn on push notifications. No, I do not want my phone constantly going off at all hours of the day."
"Public toilets."
"Plastic.
Incredibly useful material.Totally ruined by selfish people discarding it without a thought, corporations for prioritising profits over the environment, cosmetic companies for creating micro plastics, and governments for not doing anything about it!"
"AI.
Like can we focus on using AI for the actual useful stuff like locating tumors and finding missing people and not creating deepfake porn of real people and stealing art?"
"Essential oils.
They smell brilliant, reduce stress & anxiety and help treat fungal infections, but all the anti-vax & ‘crunchy’ moms have decided they’re a magical solution to everything that is wrong with the world."
"Green traffic lights.
Some people just sit at a green light not knowing the light is green because they’re distracted by their radio or phone and it takes till someone beeps their horn that they notice they have a green light and waste the light for everyone else as the light turns yellow and red after they go."
"One genuinely useful thing that has been ruined by stupid people is the online review system.
Originally intended to help consumers make informed decisions and businesses improve their services, it has been flooded with fake reviews, both positive and negative. Some people leave one-star reviews for trivial reasons, like a package arriving a day late, or worse, they weaponize reviews to unfairly attack businesses they have personal grudges against."
"Reproduction."
"The word “literally,” which used to be reserved for indicating that you were not exaggerating and that a thing really happened."
"Reality TV.
A really good concept, unfortunately ruined to get more views."
"ADHD medication.
Because a bunch of people who don’t need it try abusing it, I can’t get more than a month of medication at a time.
Do you understand how inconvenient it is to try to get monthly refills when my brain doesn’t understand the concept of consistency????"
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(kidding, kind of)
not to mention the comment section that is overrun by toxic and political bs
..and kiddies downvoting every comment several times using a vpn or something
Simple as that
No, no. That's not what a planned economy does.
That's exactly what a 'planned economy' does. Then the dictator has to crack down on the population and millions die. It played out multiple times in the 20th century.
Na, that's not what planned economy does. Dictatorship does that.
And people like to share. Our whole species is here because of this fact. 'people simply are like that' is always trying to excuse bad behavior. People in general aren't selfish. You are.
Planned economies always lead to dictators or start with dictators. No one person or group of people are smart enough to 'plan' an entire economy.
Lenin, Mao, Castro, Chavez, Kim Il Sung, Pol Pot... the list goes on.