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[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 125 points 4 months ago

Smoking. Millions of euros of taxpayer money spent every year on those lung cancer patients which could be well spent elsewhere. It's also an activity that negatively affects not just the smoker but everyone around them.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 56 points 4 months ago

Smoking is something I truly despise, we all know that it is bad, really bad for you, we teach kids about it, yet people still start smoking.

Do as New Zealand did, set a cut off year, if you are born after 2015, you will not be permitted to buy tobacco at all.

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 36 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 112 points 4 months ago

Supermarkets and businesses throwing food away and not allowing people to take it for free. ("If I can't sell it nobody can have it").

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Would only work if you also made them immune from lawsuits due to people getting sick from eating expired food.

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[-] WagnasT@lemmy.world 94 points 4 months ago

Requiring the purchase or use of proprietary software or formats to view or submit public records.

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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 85 points 4 months ago

Collection of personally identifiable information on every website ever.

Corporate murder.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 84 points 4 months ago

Making a profit from healthcare and health insurance.

Or even just make private health insurance illegal.

[-] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 75 points 4 months ago
[-] tamiya_tt02@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

Lobbying is fine. Lobbying with money should be illegal.

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[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 68 points 4 months ago

Members of Congress trading individual stocks, bonds, and other investments.

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 66 points 4 months ago
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[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 65 points 4 months ago

Lies and exaggerated advertising.

No, it's not "best in the world" or "lightning fast", it's an entry level $200 GPU!

No, it doesn't have "crystal clear high-res screen", it's just a budget phone!

No, that tampon will not change my lifestyle!

No, that perfume will not make guys drooling over me!

I'm ok with "it's decent quality with an affordable price".

I'm ok with "it's the best budget-friendly option".

I'm ok with "it's not the best in the world, but it's definitely worth a try".

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[-] dwindling7373@feddit.it 62 points 4 months ago

Making more than 10x the money of your least paid employee.

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[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 60 points 4 months ago

Boneless chicken with bones

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[-] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 60 points 4 months ago

Nutrition information based on unrealistic serving sizes.

I've seen an individually wrapped muffin "servings per pack: 2".

Then there's that Tom Scott video on how "zero calory" sweetener can be 4 calories.

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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 56 points 4 months ago

Unlimited political spending, particularly by corporations - see Citizen's United.

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[-] Zak@lemmy.world 54 points 4 months ago

Locked bootloaders

[-] MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 53 points 4 months ago

Qualified immunity for police officers. Prosecutors and judges basically get qualified immunity, too-- in that they can be caught engaging in all sorts of inappropriate and illegal activity without facing punishment because like police, it usually doesn't even get to the extent of being charged.

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[-] chameleon@fedia.io 52 points 4 months ago

Requiring agreement to some unspecified ever-changing terms of service in order to use the product you just bought, especially when use of such products is required in the modern world. Google and Apple in particular are more or less able to trivially deny any non-technical person access to smartphones and many things associated with them like access to mobile banking. Microsoft is heading that way with Windows requiring MS accounts, too, though they're not completely there yet.

[-] nickiam2@aussie.zone 47 points 4 months ago

Billionaires. Nobody ever needs that much wealth. Resources better used elsewhere for the public good.

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[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago
  • not having the day off to vote
  • FPTP
  • unlimited funding from unrestricted sources in politics
  • impunity for blatantly corrupt unelected political appointees

Etc.

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[-] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 46 points 4 months ago

predatory microtransactions in video games that are essentially gambling.

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[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago

Child marriages. Fact that's legal in any US States is absurd.

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[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 45 points 4 months ago

Mutilating the bodies of people too young or otherwise unable to give consent.

[-] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago

I want to live in a world where "stop cutting bits of babies dicks off" doesn't require any further explanation.

"No, actually, its you who needs to justify cutting bits of babies dicks off. Not the other way round. Unless its hair, nails or connected to the mum, the default position is actually not to cut bits of the baby off."

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[-] Wahots@pawb.social 44 points 4 months ago

Insane rent hikes. Landlords and corps shouldn't be able to raise rent from $1,700 mo to $8,000 mo in a single period, let alone a handful of years.

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[-] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago

Advertising. I just hate how it’s crept into every facet of our lives and it’s not done intruding in on our daily lives either.

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[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 41 points 4 months ago

Conflicts of interest. Sometimes illegal, but not nearly as much as they should be (almost always)

Like congress members being allowed to trade stock, which can then be affected by their vote

Or one of the specifically carved out exceptions to the medical kickbacks laws is for the people who negotiate drug prices for pharmacies

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

Forced arbitration clauses.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 37 points 4 months ago

selling boneless chicken wings with bones.

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[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 36 points 4 months ago

I think tacking on irrelevant laws onto popular bills to get them passed shouldn't be allowed.

Politicians shouldn't be allowed to trade stocks, especially when they're in a position to pass laws that would directly affect their holdings.

Super PACs, it's absolutely wild that that's a thing IMO.

I think there should also be a "cooling off" period of some sort over passing/repealing laws. I'm thinking as an example of the Republicans after Obamacare was passed, when they tried to repeal it something like 70 times in 10 years. I get that things change and laws sometimes need to be amended or updated, but there should really be some system in place to prevent people from spamming up the whole system like that.

I'm also not a big fan of the filibuster.

[-] privsecfoss@feddit.dk 35 points 4 months ago
[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 30 points 4 months ago

When you are in a political position you are not allowed to lie.

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[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

Predatory advertising... commonly is the form of fear mongering, but any form should be illegal.

[-] doctortofu@reddthat.com 29 points 4 months ago

Small print, excessive legalese and outright deceptive language in ads, agreements and such. All the "free" (not really free) trials, "unlimited" (not really unlimited) plans, "best value" (according to the producer and their mum) deals and shit like that.

There really should be a law prohibiting that - if reading through terms and conditions for using a damn website or a toothbrush or whatever requires 4 hours of free time, a magnifyibg glass and degree in law, such t&cs should be illegal. Same for disclaimers and such in ads - any 4pt text displayed for 2 seconds on screen should automatically result in a massive fine.

[-] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 28 points 4 months ago
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[-] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 months ago

Minor being member of religious (or political) organization

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[-] smb@lemmy.ml 26 points 4 months ago

In the US slavery should be illegal since ages but isn't yet.

[-] jlou@mastodon.social 26 points 4 months ago

The employer-employee contract

It violates the theory of inalienable rights that implied the abolition of constitutional autocracy, coverture marriage, and voluntary self-sale contracts.

Inalienable means something that can't be transferred even with consent. In case of labor, the workers are jointly de facto responsible for production, so by the usual norm that legal and de facto responsibility should match, they should get the legal responsibility i.e. the fruits of their labor

@asklemmy

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[-] dog_@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

The selling of personal information.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Killing animals for pleasure.

Edit: I love how the voting discrepancy here shows the hypocrisy lol

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[-] nicerdicer@feddit.org 25 points 4 months ago

Social- and greenwashing proposals.

"By buying [unnecessary product] you will help [marginalized group] to gain a livable income and also send their kids to school instead of sending them to [work place with - even for adults - horrible work conditions]. Also, when buying [product] we will save [arbirtary area] of [rainforest/ coral reef/ mangrove swamp] that would otherwise have been destroyed [but not by us]. Additional to that, your purchase helped us to save [arbitrary ammount of CO~2~ - at least in a completely hypothetical scenario]. While using [product] you will make the world a better place."

As a customer there is barely any way you can ensure or check that these things are true. It cannot be possible to save the enviroment while buying stupid products like, for example, internet-of-shit-devices which will be phased out in no time or single use products made from plastic or other harmful materials that are not recycleable.

All these claims are just an indulgance trade - like it is done for centuries in a religious context. It is just that you have an excuse to consume more, because they to something to help people/ enviroment. If there was a product that would have been advertised as: "Well, we irretrieveably destroyed 100 km^2^ of nature, and for each single product in average two workers died and at end-of-life this product will fuck up the environment once more - also it will impair your health just by existing", it would be horrible - but at least it would be honest.

[-] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

Honestly? Alcohol. I used to work security at a rehab, and it was always the worst addiction. The withdrawls are horrible, up to and including death. Yes, even worse than heroin.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 35 points 4 months ago

Read up on US prohibition and how it funded the Mafia. It just changes the form of the societal disease.

The answer to addiction is having support and care on place for those that fall to it so society helps pick them up again. You can't stop the abuse of substances unless you fix why people are crawling into a hole to avoid the world. Lack of mental health is a disease of society as well as the individual.

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[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

We tried that in the US. It went very poorly.

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[-] shapesandstuff@feddit.org 24 points 4 months ago

Private cars in cities.
They're noisy, unhealthy, cause massive damage to infrastructure, transport one person at a time while taking up enough space for ~10 in the road, fill open spaces for parking, sometimes while being completely unusable, endanger everyone else on the roads....

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