CEOs
Organized religion. Prosperity gospel. Televangelists. Tucker’s career.
Trump and the American Nazi Party
Tiktok
Religion
Lots of subscription based services, like heated seats in cars
I'm gonna get downvoted for this but... gaming consoles.
Gaming consoles made sense back in the day before home computing took off, and for a while they actually had superior hardware than computers when it came specifically to running games. But nowadays gaming consoles are just locked down user-hostile computers with a subscription service attached. The gaming equivalent of inkjet printers. It's an industry made irrelevant by advancements in technology, propped up by misleading marketing and artificial hype that sadly many people fall for.
Any brand of authoritarianism.
My high school mandatory epilepsy training for teachers and staff because the art teacher stepped over me while I was seizing on the floor during class. Other students had to carry me to the nurse because I couldn't walk right after the seizure. Teacher wouldn't even call the nurse to let her know what was up
Casinos & Gacha games
Probably a whole bunch of us. Stupidity may result in unwanted and/or unplanned pregnancies.
Cryptocurrency as an investment
Trump
Advertising
The price of Apple products
"Do not eat"-stickers.
At HEB I saw "Water melon filet" for sale.
False dichotomies…
The Republican party.
Republicans.
McDonald's
Facebook. (When Zuck was asked how he amassed so much personal information about people, he famously answered: "They 'trust me.' Dumb f*cks.") Growing up, we were told it was foolish to post personally identifying information to the Internet, then the generation that told us that flocked to facebook.
Credit scores. (Less the concept, namely the fact that they're used so extensively to judge people based on arbitrary rules. It's stupid that the companies behind them are still operating after major breaches involving more information than they should have had in the first place. The average person seems too dumb to care what happens with their personal information, sadly.)
Services like "Grammarly". Some folks noted below that there are some legitimate use cases as an accessibility tool, but the service itself seems to target the English-native people "Oh whatever you know what I meant" crowd, to help them sound smart in emails.
And all this other Ai stuff that seems to market itself on the premise that the user is a complete moron who needs to escape the consequences of their ineptitude.
Almost every Ai commercial features someone using Ai tools to quickly cover up the fact that they forgot their partner's birthday, or quickly cobble together some work memo because they were sleeping or something. (Okay that last one can be kinda based amirite lol.)
Edit: Explanations added because I'm fine being disagreed with but maybe I didn't communicate very well lol.
The current american government?
Cybertruck.
The current climate crisis.
A lot of Osha regulations.
Warning labels...
"I'm with stupid" shirts
automatic weapons
Everything.
Maga
"Tactical" products and brain "vitamins"
Lexica
Dark Souls 2
Car door jams/openers
Forgetful doesn't mean stupid!
Quick! Where are your keys?!
Did you have to look? lol
laws
Labels like "Caution hot" on coffee cups
CEOs
India
Bicycle helmets
