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What profession do y'all hate with deepest of passion
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Lobbyists
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.
Real Estate agents. Pointless leeches no one needs.
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
Cops
HR
You mean "The Fun Police"
At best. At worst they're happiness enforcers, and/or corpo double agents
Outgoing call center, Door to door "sales", professional panhandlers.
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.
Real-estate agents, followed by recruiters. Those people usually make good money while being absolutely shit at their jobs.
Try to find a real-estate agent who is capable of taking a single picture without their thumb partially covering the camera lens…
I had an Army recruiter call me when I was in H.S. After his initial "sales pitch' I told him I didn't believe in the military. That asshole was positively apoplectic. He went on the predictable "if-it-wasn't-for-the-military-we'd-all-be-speaking-Russian" screed, to which I just hung up on him.
Journalists
Advertisers.
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 there’s reasonable evidence to suggest they aren’t effective at increasing sales so the whole thing feels like a scam to waste everyone’s time and money
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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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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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.
Chiropractors. It’s quackery performed by scam artists and idiots. A “ghost” told a crazy man about this magic during a seance, and his son saw a way to make a buck. The only thing it’s 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 Randi…
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wonder how less popular all that shit would be if the US just jad proper affordable/accessible healthcare like the most pf the rest of the modern world
Fun fact, in Europe a lot of countries will pay for your homeopathy. It actually might be a bigger thing there.
finance
I’m 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
Weapons dealers and manufacturers, realators, landlords, lobbyists, law enforcement officers, immigration officers or any other monopolists of violence.
I can't believe this is the only mention of landlords to date.
Probably because most people don't think of it as a "profession". Lots of landlords hire property managers, which is a profession, but the landlord themselves are just collecting the money. Small-time landlords that might have 1 or 2 places they rent out probably have a real job, and just landlord on the side.
It's probably a relatively small percentage of landlords who actually do the work themselves, and do it as a full time job.
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.
Lobbyists, Human Resources, CEO’s, Corporate Attorney, Hedge fund manager, FBI, CIA, Mossad, ICE and Televangelist
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
I have a volunteer at my dog rescue who got her MBA but focused specifically on non-profit administration. She’s amazing, one of the most amazing we have because she handles grant writing and all the paperwork that keeps us in line. Her income job is with an np that helps refugees get their new life established.
It’s like lawyers that actually use their training for good, few and far between but there are some out there.
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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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Law Enforcement. Military personnel.
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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.
Law enforcement, military, defense contractors, Ad people, Mainstream economists and the obvious that follow from those such as so and so at policy institute of so and so.
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