Asklemmy

Income tax

Fiat currencies like USD and Euro.

Democracy. /s

Workplace benefits.

Really? What's the benefit? You're taking money out of my paycheck to restrict my choices?

And aren't you a business anyway--you know, an organization whose purpose is to MAKE MONEY, not coddle people.

Probably not originally a scam but something about Tax, maybe it's just me but taxes are suppose for the betterment of society. Everyone suppose to pay their fair share of tax yet it's strange that we can't even see how are taxes were used to improve society. There is no breakdown like a receipt on how our tax was used. While we file taxes we have to be meticulus or we get ourselves in trouble.

Tax

Government

Working from home, but not being payed rent for the space.

Profit.

In the ideal situation, resources are transformed into goods with zero waste and with fair compensation for every person involved in that process. Any expense outside of costs and pay for the people involved is either inevitable inefficiency due to our imperfect technology or the laws of physics, or it is some sort of scam, and thus profit itself is a scam.