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A while ago we wrote a message where Reddit users shared the industries they think they should no longer exist. In the comments, readers of the Buzz Feed community shared more “problematic” industries that they think are really scam. This is what they had to say – as well as the original comments that started a huge discussion:

1.“Companies that own single -family homes. Airbnb. Both have destroyed the housing market.”

—Lisaa31

2.“Bruining -salons. Nobody can have a UVB position/bed, except for medical professionals such as dermatologists.”

—Lisaa31

3.“Telemarketers. All telemarketing calls that I get, either from bots or real people, call me with telephone numbers that are flushed from my contact list. I can’t refuse to answer a phone call from my daughter, but I am really pissed off if it is not my daughter, but a few swelling with my daughter’s telephone number.”

—O/Galaxy_ranger_bob

4.“I block every YouTube channel that makes videos about their family. You sell your child’s face and life for profit, and you don’t deserve children. I hope that the trend of family vloggers will leave one day – they are toxic.”

—Abailey11

5.“Food companies that pay scientists to make processed food more intentionally more addictive and then also pay other scientists to make ‘diet’ food to make people addicted and to offer a fake remedy for the disease and dependence they have created.”

“Then the same companies blame consumers when the ‘diet’ ultimately fails.”

—Meganeileen1000

6.“Fast fashion. Clothing that is made to be ultra -disable. They are places looking at trends and make trendy clothing that will fall so cheaply that will fall apart in a year, but that doesn’t matter to the consumer because they want to buy next year’s trends next year, anyway.”

– Leffeman

“Fast fashion is terrible for the environment (fashion is good for 20-35% of the microplastic that ends up in the ocean), terrible for employees (93% are not a livable wage, child labor and bound labor not unusually paid, and many of the factories are unsafe).”

—O/Fairygodmotherfckr

7.Ticket companies are bad than evil. All bots get the good seats, praise them in the thousands and the fans are unlucky. Something needs to be done and fast! “

– Caffie

“Those ticket companies are disgusting, I recently bought tickets for a concert with a sound check party and a meet and greet with the band. The band has canceled the sound check party, and the ticketing company refused to do a partial repayment, so I had to cancel the whole Sounch, or just greet, greetececk, or just greetececk, or just greetececk, or greetececk, or just to be greetececk, or greetececk, or just the money. Cancel, just give my money back. “

—Mutagenic

8.“Everything as a subscription. As a technical employee I understand why this is so popular, but God, I hate it.”

—O/Ihazrice

I can no longer use Microsoft because it is a subscription, and my sister, who wants to go into graphic design, cannot use Adobe Photoshop because it is a subscription. It’s ridiculous. How should people even try to get into the career they want if they can’t afford the tools? She could save for a one -off payment, but she cannot afford the added costs every month.

—Wtherainbow22

9.“The cruise ship industry. They are not good for the ocean life or the general environment. They float petri dishes.”

—Pol1

10.“Third -party students Loan ‘Consultants’. I used to work as a federal collector of student loans for a contractor from the Ministry of Education.

“What these legal gray A-hole do is to mislead people to pay for free paperwork on their behalf. Of course, they have the small disclosure of the small print, but they are extremely preaching and make me sick. In my opinion, the removal of them can be worthy of legislation, given that they interfere with federal debts.”

—O/DR3DG3

11.“Covid resulted in such an alarming rise of MLMS and other ‘entrepreneur’/’Be your own boss’/’Girl Boss’ on social media that it is honestly staggering. Ironically, and not surprising, every person I knew in one of these during Covid went a different, more stable job, but only did this in the debts.”

—O/POSXIII

12.“Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Look them up. They are in fact blood -defading between intermediaries who are between hospitals and health insurers. They are supposedly created to control the costs of prescription drugs and formularies, but they actually stimulate prices. One of the many terrible causes of the states.”

—O/TC273

13.“Child modeling and everything that has to do with children who are published on social media.”

—U/Adcharming4503

“I let children’s clothing modeled for shops and such, but when they make 10-year-olds look 20 and ‘sexy’, it’s just creepy.”

—U/Musicalnerd-1

14.“Fokkers do not have to exist. The idea of ​​forcing your pet to become pregnant and getting babies just to take them away is dirty. Sorry is not.”

—Babymagenta

15.“The people who make textbooks cost $ 2,000!”

—O/Fair_plant5156

16.“Auto alers. Give me my direct sale of consumers. Death to the Sleazy intermediaries!”

—O/JSP595

17.“Prisons with profit motive. The problem is deliberate Aiming and oparcere people so that they can place them in a prison with a profit motive. If they did not exist at all, many of those criminals would never have been labeled as such in the first place. “

—O/Jaydvd3

18.“Coal extraction and associated industries. We can switch – it would be good for the economy, our health and our future, but there is not the political willpower to do it at the moment.”

—O/TFLOWR

19.“Gambling. It is a huge problem in Ireland and the UK; there are gambling shops everywhere. I am sure it is the same in other countries and destroys lives. I can’t go anywhere or watch a sport without pushing your throat.”

—O/G3S-Ter

20.“Payment daily loans. It should be illegal to conquer someone in a debt cycle that he can’t get out of. If you can’t already afford to wait for a salary, then it must be inherent in a cyclical arrangement in which a loan is paid and then immediately return to cover the costs.

—O/Ariaofthenight

21.“Health insurance. I need medication. Doctor says I need medication. An insurance employee without medical training is not so certain. Maybe they inspect it in the short term. It works for sure. So it is only six months approved. Then I have to fight every six months.

“Insurance is extremely profitable. And people die because a man needs a third home and a private jet.”

—O/Gary_BOURHOLE

22.“Plastic bottle water for one-time use. Water in handy packaging is not a bad thing. The problem is more in how we started using them in a non-durable way.”

—U/confident_resolution

23.“The natural diamond industry. We can literally grow them in laboratories sustainably and the same quality, but there will probably always be people who want unethically natural diamonds.”

—O/Apprecate part194

24.“Factory factory for animals. I love animals and respect animals. If you didn’t let it happen to your pet, don’t pay large companies to do it to your food.”

—O/Nosession1674

“I grew up at a small family farm. I agree, factory farming has to go. Family farms treat their animals well and give them a good life.” They were bed and beds every morning before we were allowed to eat.

—O/Snogoats9114

And finally …

25.“Child beauty competitions. I enjoyed doing one as a child. It was just ‘dressed beautiful’ and ‘walking on stage’. But there were no heavy make -up or swimming suit competitions or super photoshopped photos.”

—O/Linafoor

What are some other industries that you think they should no longer exist? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below.

NOTE: Some reactions have been edited for length and/or clarity.

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Even as an American there are things that I come across every day in the US that just surprise me. So when Redditor Spiritual-Vorth6348 asked people to share the generally accepted “American standards” that the rest of the world strangely, I was curious how other countries view our standard practices. This is what they shared.

1.“Remove your credit card when you pay a restaurant account. My European colleagues thought they were being scammed when they first came across this practice! In most countries they bring the card reader to the table.”

—Jessieay

“I am Canadian, and my mother and I went to Vegas. The day we arrived there we went to eat in the hard rock cafe and the waitress took my mother’s card from her; my mother thought we were being robbed and my sister, who traveled a lot to America, reassured her.

However, it is so strange. In Canada we simply use our bank card, choose our tip percentage on the machines and we pay there. None of that writing of your tip about the reception sun. “

—Kittyquts

2.“The age of the responsibilities of adults is 18, but mature privileges are 21.”

—Svalue-risico-5918

“I can hire myself, have sex, buy a car, buy a house, get insurance, get married, work, travel everywhere, wishes, legally buying and possessing long guns, plastic surgery of my choice, piercings, getting tattoos, adopting animals, voting and being drawn up. But I forbid a damn cigarette.”

—Frostingtop1146

3.“Unpaid maternity leave.”

—Uwnowncouple

“The maternity leave that is super short, such as six to eight weeks.”

—Charlotteraedrake

4.“Cancer bankruptcy.”

—Dinkanddrunk

“Our finances are fucked. I have had cancer for two decades and our oldest daughter had about four years of cancer. We are only paid once a month, and that is another week away. I just undergone surgery a few weeks ago and I fear the bill for our deductible/copay.

Cancer sucks life from you, because it also sucks away every dime. I just can’t believe that after all wise financial decisions we have made consistently, we are about ruin. And I can’t work, so I feel that I am just a parasite about the means of my family. “

—Snobananas7856

5.“Do your own taxes.”

– Stateofyou

“Doing your own taxes, then getting a bill months later because you missed something. If damn, if you know the amount, send me an invoice and I pay it.”

—Pimpfriedrice

6.“Insurance denies medical treatments.”

-POT POSSIBLE-MIJ

“I needed a jaw operation, and various insurance claims were refused because they had the feeling that I only did it for cosmetic reasons. An agent suggested that I wanted a symmetrical jaw line to be more attractive for men, because I was in terrible pain, lived by my face, lived in a liquid det and strangled.

The hospital came in to help, and everything ran out, but that fight lasted six months. “

—Coolart61

7.“Three of the four TV commercials are prescription drugs.”

—Eiffel-Tower777

“I am American, and I think it’s strange as a fuck. I always smile when they say there is a possibility of death while she shows the happiest family. I know they have to do it legally, but it’s still funny.”

—Bit_in_The_ass

8.“To work while you go sick and the possibility to be fired for taking a sick day.”

—Whichrhiannonami

“While I am fever in bed, hoping that tomorrow I will be better for my service because nobody can cover me.”

-MaximumView3828

9.“The price on the shelf differs from the price at the point of sale.”

—Feel-the-avocado

10.“Go in massive debts for education.”

– Nomadicalally Sedentary

“And then the wild interest rates associated with study loans!”

—Awaymethrew4

11.“Associations of homeowners.”

—SouLloftheuniverse

“Ah, yes, let me pay a membership costs for Debbie to bully me at the peak of my grass.”

—Birdo3129

12.“American standard measurements.”

– All modern

“Feet and inches are archaic. The metric system is all base 10. Americans share something by 12 or 3,000 something. As a construction worker, I see the failure of this daily. I also think we use much more fractions than necessary. Give me a nice decimal or a smaller unit than an inch.”

— Lethargicbanana2467

13.“I am American, but I wanted to add that saying the promise of faithfulness with our hands over our hearts and looking at the flag was weird afterwards. Every school morning I had to do that.”

—Otoguynofoelya

14.“Primary schools regularly do active shooting exercises.”

—Adventurous-depth 984

“I will never forget the day that I picked up my (then) kindergarten, and she told us that they have learned how they could hide from the very bad men. She is now in high school and has a legitimate fear of a shooting at school. My heart breaks.”

—LNC_5103

15.“Strange, what I am most fascinated about are the big drinks they get to take with you?

—Wonderful_corgi5500

“Most people don’t do shopping often, so you get the biggest juice that you can do so it takes. It takes me at least 20 minutes to drive to the nearest supermarket, 30 minutes to the actually good, so I don’t want to pick up more milk every three days.”

–Ererditsuperman

16.“Writing month/day/year for dates. Although I have lived here for more than two decades, I still have to find out what a date in the US is.”

– Speeding Pullet

17.“Storage units. We have some of the largest houses on earth, but still need room for things.”

—False-Impression8102

18.“I always thought it was strange that Americans faint with the thought of nakedness or a curse word, but still not an eyelid on images of extreme violence.”

– yellower

19.“Heartily, ice cream in drinks. Why, Europe, why do you hate cold drinks?”

– Storeboughtebutter

“I recently had a work trip to the Netherlands. I had to get ice from the bartender in the hotel bar. They thought I was kidding when I said American hotels had ice makers on every floor.”

—Bravehamster

20.And finally: “One of the biggest problems is that it is legal to buy politicians.”

—Southern-effect-6499

Which generally accepted American standard do you find strange? Let us know in the comments or fill in this anonymous form.

NOTE: Some reactions have been edited for length and/or clarity.