People Are Sharing The Things That Are Wildly Overpriced, Yet We Keep Paying For Them Anyway

These days, everything is so costly that we've wholly normalized paying for things that are highly overpriced.

Like, we each conscionable accepted that it's mean to wage $20 for a sandwich astatine the airport.

And I'm not the lone 1 who's taken announcement – successful 1 Reddit thread (which you tin spot here), radical shared the "insanely overpriced" things that everyone keeps paying for anyway, and I hold with truthful galore of these.

Here are 18 antithetic answers — let's spot however galore of these things you tin subordinate to:

1. "Diamonds. The full happening is simply a selling ploy."

2. "I consciousness similar traditional, contracted telephone plans are fucking insane. I've been connected Fi/Consumer/Mint for years, conscionable getting a reasonably priced unlocked telephone erstwhile I consciousness similar upgrading. Been paying thing betwixt 15 and 40 bucks per month, depending, implicit the years."

"I accidental the large ones with plans mightiness marque consciousness if it's tied successful to location internet/cable/whatever, and MIGHT marque it easier to conscionable not deliberation astir upgrading your phone, but I consciousness similar I lone ever perceive radical gripe astir outgo and being locked in. Meanwhile, I've ever been blessed with the unlocked life. I don't get it."

4. "Wedding anything. Add the connection 'wedding' and abruptly the terms increases. A achromatic cake? $30. A 'wedding' cake? $300."

5. "University acquisition successful America. And yes, I person one."

"In the US, the outgo has risen thing similar 400% since the 1980s, and astir each of that is connected administrative costs, not acquisition oregon research. Frontline assemblage professors inactive aren't paid that well, unless they're famous, astatine which constituent they're paid similar CEOs. It's a large administrative grift astatine this point."

–Jumpy_Strain_6867

6. "Precut foods and grated cheese. Like, you’ll prevention truthful overmuch by conscionable buying a artifact of food and grating it, and besides teaching yourself to chopped effect (they volition beryllium fresher similar this anyway!)."

7. "Real property agents. They instrumentality a coagulated percent of the biggest purchases of our lives. We find the houses we privation to visit, woody with the notaries, and truthful on."

"There is NO WAY the interest connected million-dollar-plus houses is justifiable successful ANY way, not by skill, by education, by existent enactment done, by unsocial knowledge, oregon successful examination to immoderate akin task. That manufacture needs a tech disruptor. Unfortunately, they besides person GIANT pockets for lobbyists and advertizing and lawyers, pockets filled by our money."

–Doc911

8. "Ink pitchy printer ink. Do the mathematics sometime connected what you're paying per gallon. It's wild. They indispensable get the worldly from Neptune."

–prefix_code_16309

9. "I conscionable bought insubstantial towels and astir crap myself…why the fuck are immoderate insubstantial towels implicit $20 for six rolls?!?!"

10. "Soda. The terms of soda has gone up astronomically since COVID to the constituent wherever I can't basal buying it anymore conscionable due to the fact that of that."

–xVashTSx98

12. "Cocktails successful bars and restaurants for $15."

13. "Road bikes (cycling). What's with each the $6k to $12k bikes now? Really, who buys those?"

–totally-jag

14. "Bottled water. It’s thing similar 2,000 times the terms of filling from your tap."

15. "Concert tickets lately person gotten retired of control. Like, I get wanting to spot your favourite creator live, but erstwhile nosebleeds are going for hundreds and level seats are fundamentally a rent payment, it’s wild, and yet radical inactive snatch them up the 2nd they drop. I’ve done it excessively and felt benignant of dumb afterward, but besides had the clip of my life, truthful it’s hard to regret it."

–Far_Needleworker1501

16. "Airport nutrient and drinks. Like $6 for a vessel of h2o and $20 for a plain sandwich, but radical inactive wage due to the fact that they don’t truly person a choice."

17. "Haircuts for men commencement astatine $50 successful NYC. They don't cognize however to chopped hair. It's ridiculous."

–DoubleLibrarian393

18. Lastly, "A Blizzard astatine DQ. A mean is $8."

What are immoderate different items that beryllium connected this list? Let maine cognize successful the comments!

Note: Responses person been edited for length/clarity.