Greatest Scams of All Time

Double Toilet Paper Roll
Have you noticed that the double roll is about the size of the single roll, before the double roll was introduced?  The only thing that has doubled is the price. 

Woman's Liberation
A nice way of increasing government tax revenue by 100%.  What they failed to promote was that men should be able to stay home and raise the kids while mom went off to work.  So, both are now working.  Disposable income goes up.  Economics 101 kicks in.  Demand for goods increases, supply increases, and results in higher overall prices for goods and services.  Years later, we are no better off than we were when most households had one working parent.  The only difference is that we're all too busy working and don't have time for our families.

Self-Serve Checkouts 
Great idea if you are the bottom line of the company.  Otherwise, you lose.  Now, they only need to employ one staff member to watch over eight or so checkout terminals.  If prices stay the same, the consumer is worse off, paying the same price for a lesser service.  And, the company has put seven checkout clerks out of the workforce.  This leads to my next couple points.

Globalization and Sovereignty
Notice that the larger nations are getting bigger while promoting sovereignty everywhere else?  Divide and conquer, maybe?  I wonder what would happen if Texas wanted to separate.  But, don't think this has anything to do with government.  You can blame these huge, hungry corporations who are always looking for a way to increase price and decrease costs.  On to the next point.

Illuminati and the New World Order
Do you think that Nike, Sony, Apple and the like want you to know what's really going on?  The Illuminati is nothing more than a weak group of political leaders, who are the puppets in a corporate movement to control trade, by taking away trade barriers so they can produce cheap, in third world countries, while selling their expensive logos to us at a jillion percent markup.  Big corporations are the bad guys and we fuel them when we purchase their junk at astronomical prices.  Factories, that once employed a comfortable middle class, have been torn down to build big box retail stores that sell brand name stuff, produced overseas.  And, they employ people at a meager wage, diminishing the middle class who worked hard to build a bit of equity for their retirement, and growing a lower class that dreams of consolidating their debt and having bus fare to get to their job.     


King Size Chocolate Bars
If you grew up in the 70s, you know that these are the size of a regular chocolate bar from back in the day.  Yeah, the ones that sold for a quarter.

Bottle Service
I'm paying what for a bottle of Smirnoff and have to make my own drink?  Just so I can sit on the asshead side, away from the commoners?