Today’s Hottest Commodities Are Monthly Services You Don’t Use, Overpay For, or Get No Real Value From
Enough is enough and people should demand better.
I had to block Google as a merchant from my CashApp card for constantly trying to charge me obscure amounts ranging from 38 cents to $43, for services I’m not even aware they’re trying to charge me for, because I don’t use them, and therefore definitely don’t need them.
This isn’t a Google hit piece, as a company I actually genuinely respect them and I use an endless array of their free apps and products.
This piece is about how we’re constantly being grifted by big digital businesses and brick-and-mortar ones on a regular basis — and yet nobody seems to mind. We’re not fully absolved in this matter, I won’t pretend to know the percentages but what I do know is a staggering amount of people my age don’t read their bank statements. At least not closely enough.
And speaking of banks, the overdraft fees, hidden charges, interest rates, and late fees they and credit card companies hit us with every month, should be considered criminal. I mean actual mobsters have been sent to prison for charging the kinds of interest rates some banks and credit card companies do when it’s all said and done. The difference of course is…
