Lobbyists
this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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Insurance workers/administrators. They are there to prevent you from getting the healthcare you need. Luigi did nothing wrong. The night that human shit-stain got shot, Luigi was at my house drinking beers and playing cards.
HR
You mean "The Fun Police"
At best. At worst they're happiness enforcers, and/or corpo double agents
Generically sales people. People that call themselves hustlers. Whatever grind mindset that the people who talk that up the most always ends up being people ladder stepping salespeople
Politicians please.
And landlords and the entire finance industry.
Outgoing call center, Door to door "sales", professional panhandlers.
Real Estate agents. Pointless leeches no one needs.
Cops
finance
People who lack basic empathy or sympathy for other people.
Marketing, particularly Ads people. They exist only to hype shitty products, primarily. Sure they might get eyeballs on unknown brands, but I feel like that's not what they are paid big bucks for.
Ads make me especially mad because thereβs reasonable evidence to suggest they arenβt effective at increasing sales so the whole thing feels like a scam to waste everyoneβs time and money
Wait, really? Do you have a link?
The conventional wisdom is that they barely ever work, but they're also cheap enough per view it still makes economic sense for the one influenced purchase per person per year or whatever.
The research on it is pretty murky because marketing firms frequently fund research studies but if you poke around at some of the many meta-analysis papers out there I think itβs hard to conclude that advertising is a net profit for big companies, at least in a dollars in dollars out sense. Freakonomics did an interesting episode on the topic in 2020.
For a new brand with zero visibility Iβm sure ads gain new customers, but established brands (which make up most of the advertising I see) probably arenβt making much of an impact on their sales with their incessant campaigns.
I want to also ad the people who are determined to put ads on FUCKING EVERYTHING. I grew up in the 90s, I remember when gods damn gas pumps were silent... I remember when the flashiest thing we saw on the store was when the soda displays were made into cool shapes... Get off my lawn and take your damn roofing company sign with you.
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Marketing is an industry built around manipulating people to buy things they otherwise wouldn't be interested in buying. There's no redeeming quality; the entire premise is shitty.
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Chiropractors. Itβs quackery performed by scam artists and idiots. A βghostβ told a crazy man about this magic during a seance, and his son saw a way to make a buck. The only thing itβs proven to do is cause paralysis.
I do want to say that not all chiropractors claim to be able to cure everything with adjustments. Some are more like physical therapists. In fact my actual physical therapist did what a chiropractor does a few times. And I did feel better. But I have met plenty of the snake oil salesman type as well. Saying they can cure cancer with all sorts of things. Grifter gunna grift, no matter what name you slap on them.
In the same vein, homeopaths, and psychics that take advantage of vulnerable people (aka all of them)
I miss James Randiβ¦
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Iβm gonna suggest two:
- anyone at all who works at ICE
- anyone who works at an America health insurance company in any sort of managerial or leadership capacity
Marketing and advertisers
This. Their job is litterally to get people to spend money on something they otherwise wouldn't spend money on. And they have a no holds barred attitude about separating people from their money.
This! Also , dishonesty and manipulation runs deep.
Whatever people with MBA's do.
My former boss at an engineering firm had to do an MBA to climb the ladder. He said the secret to success was just to stop thinking rationally
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SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS
Hedge fund investors, CEOs, cops, self help industry folks, homeopathic medicine salespeople, organizational structure consultants, social media influencers,
just gonna keep adding,
Suburban development planners, strip mall developers, developers who displace PoC neighborhoods, anyone in health insurance in the US, Catholic not-for-profits writ large, Catholic priests, tourist helicopter pilots...
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Corporate lobbyists. They've played a large part in the gradual destruction of the USA in the name of profit for their filthy-rich overlords.
Advertisers.
Scammer. People don't think it's a "profession" in the true sense but it absolutely is. Majority of higher up people in scam call centers or phishing campaigns do it as their day job and they certainly make more money than the average honest worker putting in the same amount of effort.
It's absolutely true. They might be a building over from someone doing level 1 tech support but making half the hourly rate.
Just having no morals won't make you rich, but it can pay the rent alright.
HR managers. They are there to protect the company and not the employees
Salespeople at car dealerships (used or new), and dealership owners moreso. In North America they benefit from protectionist laws to keep people from buying cars directly from manufacturers, which adds approximately $2k to the sale of each car on average. Pointless middlemen who are almost universally the worst people you can imagine. And the dealer service shops are not much better than scams either.
I'm sorry you had that experience. I work with former dealer technicians and they are good at fixing cars. Decent people all around. The service writers are often to blame. But with all that money on the line there is plenty of blame to go around. Fuck cars.
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