5 Scams That Have Become So Normalized, We Don't Even Notice Them Anymore (PART 7)

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024

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  • @GreyRock100
    @GreyRock100 8 месяцев назад +218

    Normalize exposing scams.

    • @tw8464
      @tw8464 8 месяцев назад +6

      Yes!

    • @TheMusicmak3r
      @TheMusicmak3r 7 месяцев назад +2

      The future belongs to those who scam today!

    • @GreyRock100
      @GreyRock100 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@TheMusicmak3r haha! Yes!

  • @carolinec3951
    @carolinec3951 8 месяцев назад +24

    Thanks for much for your perspective on so many of these scams. Very eye opening! FYI. In the US, some counties have a department called “General Relief.” That department can help you pay a one-time bill. More people should be aware that this exists.

    • @onegreenev
      @onegreenev 8 месяцев назад

      General relief is a subsidy from the government to anyone who asks at the expense of those working. It is in effect theft and it is a re-distribution of wealth from the working class to the looter class. No such entity should exist.

  • @Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section
    @Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section 8 месяцев назад +1

    The sight makes you realize why beauty filters are a thing.

  • @paul_domici
    @paul_domici 8 месяцев назад +27

    So true about the salary thing! I got a promotion a few years ago and they made me go from hourly to salary! I never brought home what I used to when hourly!!! Thank God I'm no longer working at that place!!! Great video again Nicole!!! And when I see organic stuff for sale I just laugh and get the regular stuff!

    • @一本のうんち
      @一本のうんち 8 месяцев назад +1

      i used to be a chef and was salaried. then i decided to go to uni and switched to part-time hours on an hourly rate. i was still making same money working weekends and a couple of evenings during the week compared to doing 50-60 hours before on average. manager was well pissed :D

    • @paul_domici
      @paul_domici 8 месяцев назад

      It's amazing that as soon as they promote you they give you a raise and figure out a way to cut your pay!!! @@一本のうんち

    • @onegreenev
      @onegreenev 8 месяцев назад +1

      I sell our own home grown organic walnuts at lower than super market prices for regular non-organic that are sprayed with deadly chemicals which gets into the food. People still buy supermarket garbage and pay the high prices. Go figure. Can’t beat our walnuts for quality either.

    • @paul_domici
      @paul_domici 8 месяцев назад

      I prefer cashews @@onegreenev

  • @donaldduck830
    @donaldduck830 8 месяцев назад

    Ok, this was on my yt startpage and I already got lots of subscribed channels... but this was really good and interesting that was presented in a quick, smart and funny way. So I now got yet another subscribed channel. Thumbs up.

  • @robertmaxa6631
    @robertmaxa6631 8 месяцев назад +1

    I never believed that shopping at second hand stores was doing some "Good", but once in awhile, you get lucky and find good deals. Personally, have found Value Village to be a bit expensive nowadays,"Goodwill", has better prices. I used to buy my work jeans at goodwill, because they were cheap, like $10, but I can get new jeans for $16 at Costco,so...

  • @kerryf9796
    @kerryf9796 8 месяцев назад +2

    I am so fed up with scam calls. I was missing medical calls because I don't answer the phone anymore when I don't number. The medical industry started labeling the calls as "Healthcare ". Well now the scammers are doing that too! I am going to have to look into Aura!!!

    • @AccordingtoNicole
      @AccordingtoNicole  8 месяцев назад +5

      The scam calls have gotten out of control. Also if you google your name, you’ll be horrified how much personal data pops up. Aura has restored (some of) my sanity lol

  • @maryrudelich9000
    @maryrudelich9000 8 месяцев назад

    Salaried employment is my biggest peeve. In fact the minute my former manager suggested adding to my 50 hour salaried work week, I said ok but I’ll need to be paid by the hour. So we came to agreement of hourly wage, along with new equipment. Salaried employment sucks.

  • @blipco5
    @blipco5 8 месяцев назад

    You DO have a lot to say about just about everything. And you are usually spot-on as best I can judge. I’m a frugal bugger just like you.

  • @bigglyguy8429
    @bigglyguy8429 8 месяцев назад

    Regarding smart watches, I did quite a lot of exercise yesterday. Today my Garmin Fenix reminded me to move my ass, as I was compensating for yesterday by vegging out today. So I got up and did 35 mins on the treadmill. Science!

  • @jeromehenen8256
    @jeromehenen8256 8 месяцев назад

    GREAT VIDEO , VERY INFORMATIVE! THANK YOU!

  • @Emanuel_carey
    @Emanuel_carey 8 месяцев назад

    10:54 yea. I think it’s being too connected. I had a smart watch, then when it broke I was happy. Because I have regular watches, and didn’t need to have every notification come to my wrist. But all these tracking devices, have expensive apps that are waste of money

  • @MrDayinthepark
    @MrDayinthepark 8 месяцев назад +160

    The Goodwill and Value Village stories were very good. I dated a girl who worked for a healthcare non-profit. I was intrigued, what are they doing for anyone, non-profit, in the healthcare industry? Then I found out the owner of the business drove an expensive Jaguar, he was in the office nearly all the time . . . money was clearly involved. And then the answer revealed itself: It was a lobbying company, lobbying for legislation to help hospitals and HMOs profit. Non-profit means someone other than shareholders are getting the money. I don't know the rules, but I do know the term "non-profit" is almost meaningless. Someone is still getting rich.

    • @seltzermint5
      @seltzermint5 8 месяцев назад +27

      I worked for a small non-profit that was relatively above board and STILL I saw elements of this. We had team building days that IMO were completely unnecessary, with a nice catered meal, activities like bowling or ziplines and rope courses, and special logo sweatshirts for all. That may have seemed minor but it was thousands of dollars we could have used much better to help people!

    • @lmusima3275
      @lmusima3275 8 месяцев назад +20

      In London where I live, I hate seeing these charity workers salespeople in the street who try sales tricks to trap people into signing up for monthly donations at £10. Some have even tried guilt tripping me for buying coffee ☕️ and I told them to tell that to their millionaire boss

    • @Gtfobcso2024
      @Gtfobcso2024 8 месяцев назад

      Along with 3rd party llc's, non profit is a scam, i.e., scientology and other fake religions, including kkk and mormons. Our system is failing.

    • @gentronseven
      @gentronseven 8 месяцев назад

      Many hospitals in the US are non profits with doctors and executives getting 7 figure salaries and that's why it costs them %7000 more than 40 years ago adjusted for inflation. The best part is that the government pays a majority of health care even in the US so they're taxing you to steal your money and give it to health care executives while normal people can't even afford to go to the doctor

    • @Bawkr
      @Bawkr 8 месяцев назад

      This is exactly why I'm voting no on funding any sort of building anywhere I live ever, It never gets done. They always just steal the money. I voted once for a hospital expansion, huge mistake they didn't do anything at all & the money vanished. & also I once again think the whole health system here is seriously flawed especially given recent events. Good Will I like, I shop there, buy peoples old stuff & clean, repair & ship it out to people. It costs me quite the investment upfront when I buy stuff that doesn't move quickly or never moves at all presumably.

  • @Susancshell
    @Susancshell 8 месяцев назад +133

    After spending the last 27 years working a salaried "40" hour week job and actually working 50 to 70 hours, I started a new job 2 years ago. After negotiating my annual "salary" I then demanded to be an hourly employee at the equivalent rate of the salary. They came bsck with "you will then have to accrue your vacation time instead of getting unlimited vacation offered to salaried employees." I then asked how many salaried employees really were taking vacation when it really was comp time for all the extra hours they put in. They literally said, yeah, you're probably right, okay we'll hire you as hourly. I now get 1.5 times for anything over 40 hours a week and I refuse to work more than 45. And yes, I do realize how lucky I am.

    • @tw8464
      @tw8464 8 месяцев назад

      You're absolutely right. "Salary" is the biggest scam of all. It's just a way of dodging the 40 hour workweek and stealing your labor. The "salary" b.s. needs put a stop to. It's part of the "trickle down" mafia's total theft from the American People for the past 50 years the biggest theft in history

    • @tw8464
      @tw8464 8 месяцев назад +6

      ​@user-qj6jb9nk9w you may not have taken a pay cut but gotten a raise. The company was stealing your time. A $50,000 salary needs to be for 40 hours like any other work and have to pay overtime if they want more. They're paying 50K for all your education training your years of hard work gaining your experience and the 40 hours a week of labor. That should be the only deal, NOT these companies getting all these colossal extra free hours of our labor draining us completely without paying more.

    • @beaubooks7287
      @beaubooks7287 8 месяцев назад +4

      This is a very interesting perspective! Are you in the US or Canada?
      Where I live, hourly workers are mostly manual labourers. I work 40 hours a week (actually 38.5 but I get an additional 12 days off as compensation), and would definitely get sent home if I tried to stay late.
      The more I hear about work culture in other countries, the more I realise how privileged I am.

    • @tw8464
      @tw8464 8 месяцев назад +7

      @beaubooks7287 the U.S. has long had a fake salary problem. Companies take advantage of younger professionals. The companies often "pay" the younger workers a fake too salary of like $25,000 or $30,000 a year, despite four years degree and the companies demand many more hours over 40 hours or on call at home 24 hours or odd hours split shifts late hours or night hours. That's not even getting onto the higher ups or multiple "managers" constantly dumping their work on you working you to death. By time you figure out your actual hourly wage for all the hours you have to work over 40, you're regularly putting in 10 hour days or more working weekends etc., the completely uncompensated hours getting ready commuting taking your bosses or clients constant calls at home day and night working extra hours on "special projects" etc. it actually comes out to less than minimum wage for a lot of people suffering under these fake "salaries." For only very high demand and very high salaries more like $100,000 or higher professionals etc. does "salary" make any sense. Anyone getting lower "salaries" or crap "starting salaries" and working over 40 hours with a lot of stress, it's really not worth it and probably better off with 40 hours and if the company wants more they have to pay overtime. The too many fake too low "salaries" has been just a way for corporations to cheat workers and get out of paying overtime. It's among the "trickle down" thieving that's been going on for over 40 years stealing the American People's wages, the biggest theft in history.

    • @zimmejoc
      @zimmejoc 8 месяцев назад +6

      that's the catch--unlimited vacation doesn't have to be carried on the books as a future or expense the way the formal 2 or 3 weeks of paid vacation does. When it is an unknown quantity, the bean counters can't count it. Very few people get approval to take their 2 or 3 weeks of vacation and almost nobody gets to take more than 3. Unlimited vacation is a scam. You absolutely did the right thing. I also am stunned the company hired you as hourly instead of just moving on to the next fool who would be suckered in by "unlimited vacation." You have have a very desirable and rare skill set.

  • @tdee1575
    @tdee1575 8 месяцев назад +70

    As a former Value Village "floor supervisor" (the person that gets called over when a customer wants to yell at someone they think is in charge) - thank you! I can't tell you how many times I've had to surprise some very irate people with the information you just shared! (This was close to 15 years ago, and it feels like people are just figuring it out!)

    • @sofia.eris.bauhaus
      @sofia.eris.bauhaus 8 месяцев назад +1

      can you please explain what all the outrage is about? i don't quite understand what about "thrift stores make money" surprises people. i guess their management may be overpaid? workers underpaid? that's not exactly unique to thrift stores, though, is it?
      she didn't even say anything about what workers are paid at Goodwill, but i guess just throw them under the bus while you're at it.

  • @georgedantz3617
    @georgedantz3617 8 месяцев назад +44

    1. Second hand stores = Yep
    2. Organic food = Sort of agree. Very pricey!
    3. Payday Loans = Yep!
    4. Wearable tech = Mostly yep. By the way, your "smart butt plug" joke is just way funny!😂
    5. Salaried work = Yep!

    • @zabmcauley5647
      @zabmcauley5647 8 месяцев назад +1

      I give to my buy nothing group first, then give the remaining to Value Village. Part of reduce, reuse, repurpose, recycle and giving stuff chance of avoiding the landfill.

    • @Sekir80
      @Sekir80 8 месяцев назад

      About that smart buttplug joke... You should check out the chess story from a year ago involving Carlsen and Niemann.

  • @Van-zf9iw
    @Van-zf9iw 8 месяцев назад +28

    re: phone scams. I do not answer from people that I have not programmed into my cell phone.

    • @InMyBrz
      @InMyBrz 7 месяцев назад

      then BLOCK THE NUMBER

    • @PacificSword
      @PacificSword 5 месяцев назад +1

      There's a feature that won't even ring your phone if they're not in your contacts. It's just blissful. Best feature ever.

    • @inertiaforce7846
      @inertiaforce7846 3 месяца назад +1

      I just don't answer and let them leave a message if it's important. This filters out scammers very effectively. Most scammers don't even leave a message and the ones that do are only 10% of them, which I can just delete the message.

  • @kerryf9796
    @kerryf9796 8 месяцев назад +18

    Can you do a video on Temu? I am so sick of their ads. I've read some bad things about them, but I know there has to be more!

    • @AccordingtoNicole
      @AccordingtoNicole  8 месяцев назад +12

      It’s very much in the works. Stay tuned 😉

    • @kerryf9796
      @kerryf9796 8 месяцев назад +5

      @@AccordingtoNicole Yay!!!!

    • @Starry_Night_Sky7455
      @Starry_Night_Sky7455 8 месяцев назад +1

      Yes disillusion people about this crap.

  • @ogvelociraptor205
    @ogvelociraptor205 8 месяцев назад +47

    Always a good day when Nicole drops another Video 🎉

    • @SamhainBe
      @SamhainBe 8 месяцев назад +5

      Absolutely is!

    • @seltzermint5
      @seltzermint5 8 месяцев назад +1

      Sunday morning is the perfect time too!

  • @sunnydayz9032
    @sunnydayz9032 8 месяцев назад +19

    Definitely Goodwill. I saw a pair of sandals in their summer, all dirty and used that were more expensive than the exact same sandals were brand new at CVS!!😮 shame on them!

  • @hxviera
    @hxviera 8 месяцев назад +66

    Your take on scams is not only hilarious but also spot-on. Keep exposing those scammers with your wit and charm!

  • @skylark391
    @skylark391 8 месяцев назад +68

    Also, Goodwill in my neighborhood built a brand new building for themselves. So, to everybody else they send a message - reuse and recycle, but they didn't want to use some old building for their own business

    • @florencemiller7826
      @florencemiller7826 8 месяцев назад

      Goodwill is nothing but a rip off, they sell your stuff and profit from ALL the money nothing is charitable about them

    • @herelieskittythomas3726
      @herelieskittythomas3726 8 месяцев назад +3

      Very good point!

  • @xkristixx
    @xkristixx 8 месяцев назад +24

    So I am a "flat rate fee" clinician, meaning basically getting paid hourly for each service I provide. I was also offered to switch to salary (once my company added them) because of the additional benefits. When I went to calculate the difference in pay, it was almost $15k less, and let me tell you, the added benefits of time off and accrual of PTO was NOWHERE near worth the 15k.

  • @MadisonBriggsArtchick
    @MadisonBriggsArtchick 8 месяцев назад +146

    As a fairly newly retired person. I think working for other people, period, can be a big scam. Many of my positions in my work life were for a university. The benefits were great, yes, but the salary schedule was fixed and really far below market value for my skills. Also working in the non-profit sector, which was my preference, was unfortunately on the lower end of the pay scale. Doing something good is never appreciated in the way that earning a shitton of money for a corporation is . . . sigh. Now that I am retired, I have confirmed to myself that time is truly worth more than money to me, any day. I am happy to work on my art and spend my time my way, without answering to anyone for it. Hallelujah. BTW, I retired without a nest egg and am mostly living on social security and my freelance graphic design work, and art sales when they happen. Another scam to me is all these you tube videos that scare the shit out of people saying you will never have enough to retire. If you want something bad enough, in my experience, you will find a way to make it happen. Love your videos and look forward to them every Sunday!

    • @iczemi
      @iczemi 8 месяцев назад +19

      I retired from a corporation, in Dec. Oh man, it's so good, to not have to do what you're told, every minute of the day. 38 years of slavery was enough for me.

    • @MrDayinthepark
      @MrDayinthepark 8 месяцев назад

      I dropped the corporate hierarchy in November, in a mass layoff. Working for people incapable of doing your job, is ridiculous. They want us circus dogs to jump higher and higher, higher than they could ever jump. And do it for less and less. I bought some real estate when I was in my 50's, it provides good passive income. I was literally wealthier than my manager in the corporation! If they're not careful, they will destroy our nation. Of this, I am certain.

    • @geezer5236
      @geezer5236 8 месяцев назад +14

      I am always amazed that your rapid fire delivery is always clear and coherent. Your arguments also clear comprehensible and logical. Your opinions take no prisoners, no apologies. What a breath of fresh air. You go woman.

    • @human1513
      @human1513 8 месяцев назад +2

      Lol. Working for a non-profit means any $ left over at the year end is legally not "profit."
      It a legal scam.
      Non-profits are for the higher ups to make a good salary and very few actually do an good for anyone and do not pass on the "not profits" dollars to their employees.
      You got sucked in.

    • @markhavel2922
      @markhavel2922 8 месяцев назад +5

      It's really cool to see a young person that has somewhat figured out life , and working around It's limitations.
      What makes our country (the United States)so formidable on the world stage, is that we are really good at producing obedient workers.
      The world needs obedient workers, but you obviously are not one. Some people just prefer being a cog on the wheel and turning it off at the end of the day.
      I know how to be a obedient worker, but I had boundaries, and realized early in my life that a job was just one facet of a regret less existence.
      Money doesn't make the world go round, ego does. Money is the face of that human condition. Now if we humans can get our minds around the fact that we have a predisposition to making other humans our bitch.
      You're doing great, keep on going. Everyone has different aspirations, yours are uncommon.

  • @Anna81Louise
    @Anna81Louise 8 месяцев назад +17

    My partner works in IT. His job a few years ago was a salaried position. He would have projects that had to be finished by a specific date so he would have to work overtime to get them done. Then there would be a few days before the next project started where he would have nothing to do but he still had to be in the office for an eight hour day. Why couldn't he have the time off to make up for the overtime hours? His time was being stolen.

    • @YS_Production
      @YS_Production 8 месяцев назад

      Because he is soft. I never was in a position where I would be forced to work overtime. I know people who do and they can sometime take time off to cancel out the overtime, but only the same month. If they don't use the overtime hours the same month, they are nullified. No way I would ever agree to that. I don't get why people do.

    • @Rickywwx
      @Rickywwx 8 месяцев назад

      He's getting taken advantage of. Also a salaried IT employee, but my company is good to me. We also occasionally work extra hours to hit a deadline. Afterward we are encouraged to take a little time off for the extra work without using some of my 6 weeks of PTO. We also have no punch clock, time sheets, and a flexible schedule that makes it fairly easy to schedule appointments in the middle of the day as long as I put in the work some time and participate in the meetings I need to be at. Like she said, it depends on the company you work for. I wouldn't call it a scam, but salary is easily abused by either side. It requires a good deal of trust and trustworthiness from both sides, but is pretty great for both sides when the trust is upheld.

  • @bailagringacovers
    @bailagringacovers 8 месяцев назад +33

    Omg totally agree with you about wearable tech. Why tf would I need an Apple Watch if I already have an iPhone? I don’t need to be glued more to my screen lol

    • @paddymurphy-oconnor8255
      @paddymurphy-oconnor8255 8 месяцев назад +4

      I have an Apple Watch SE, the cheapest model, and it’s useful for me when I’m out and about, cycling, gym, emergency voice notes or calls if there is an incident on the road. I don’t wear it at home when I don’t actually need it. The technology is good if it works for you and you are not enslaved by it.

    • @gene_takavic57
      @gene_takavic57 8 месяцев назад +6

      Marketing B.S. Like all marketing, trying to get you to buy stuff that you don't need! They don't market water or fruits and vegetables, etc.

    • @paddymurphy-oconnor8255
      @paddymurphy-oconnor8255 8 месяцев назад

      If you get utility and enjoyment from it, then you are free to buy it. I do find it useful. I also have a Garmin tracker which I wear at night. I'm an athlete and it helps me monitor my condition, heart rate, and helps indicate when I might need to rest or maybe getting sick. @@gene_takavic57

    • @InMyBrz
      @InMyBrz 7 месяцев назад

      to look and feel like an ENTITLED A-HOLE, that's why

  • @GarysResolve
    @GarysResolve 8 месяцев назад +19

    love to hear and see your take on free trials on apps and services that hook you by making it so difficult to cancel prior to end of trial also the sites that make you sign in with an email or phone number just to see the price of their offerings. you are doing a great service yourself thanks and keep it going

  • @busterbluesun
    @busterbluesun 8 месяцев назад +14

    I have to buy organic greens, like kale and spinach. One time I bought the regular non-organic for my smoothies, omg it set my allergies off big time. I can do regular apples, bananas, etc. for my smoothies but I have to get organic leafy greens.

    • @TheBargainista101
      @TheBargainista101 8 месяцев назад

      Greens are pretty easy to grow so you might want to consider that option. You can grow them in a pot and for many varieties, you cut off the leaves you need at the time and they grow back. Spinach dies if it gets too hot, but kale is especially hardy and easy to grow so it can be grown year round.

  • @Giardintek
    @Giardintek 8 месяцев назад +25

    Good list Nicole and I have to agree with all of them. We have tons of kids clothes for sale and I usually sell them for $1- or 2- /piece, while thrift stores are charging up to $10- Cdn for a used kids sweater and even more for a jacket. Also don't forget Insurance, which is one of the biggest legalized scam in NA and usually goes hand in hand with banks. Most US/Cdn ppl have no clue what insurance costs in other parts of the World. We have a vehicle in the EU and the mandatory coverage is about $75- / year, that's less than what you pay here in a month for your car.

    • @dianawilde417
      @dianawilde417 8 месяцев назад +3

      Not true. I have a normal car in England and pay $2000 USD a year for basic insurance!

    • @jasonleatherwood2172
      @jasonleatherwood2172 8 месяцев назад +1

      Good god i live in tennessee i pay 1500 a year for 5 cars 2 of them full coverage lol and im 37 year

    • @Giardintek
      @Giardintek 8 месяцев назад

      UK is not EU, Remember Brexit @@dianawilde417

  • @johnepperson8867
    @johnepperson8867 8 месяцев назад +26

    I donate to Salvation army, local church thrift stores and animal thrift stores. Like Nicole said, Goodwill is a business. I've seen, in the deep south U.S., prices are outrageous for used stuff. I feel bad for the folks that depend on thrift stores to purchase their goods.

    • @pablodelsegundo9502
      @pablodelsegundo9502 8 месяцев назад +8

      Salvation Army is shady. Better off sticking to your local churches. And yes, Goodwill prices have been ridiculous since the 00s.

    • @redflamearrow7113
      @redflamearrow7113 8 месяцев назад +1

      The Salvation Army is one of the worst scams to fall for.

    • @johnepperson8867
      @johnepperson8867 8 месяцев назад

      @@pablodelsegundo9502I looked into your claim about The Salvation Army, I agree. I'll take your advice, thanks!

    • @brucemorris3830
      @brucemorris3830 8 месяцев назад +2

      Thrift is definitely not what it used to be. I’m in the US so I knew “Value Village” under the Savers brand name; ten years ago I was a big fan but the prices have at least tripled over that time. At this point I can pay almost the same for brand new clothes at Walmart!

    • @rogueinvestor2375
      @rogueinvestor2375 8 месяцев назад

      I've been to a few Salvation Army stores. They look more like boutique stores that cater to upper class housewives than thrift stores that offer affordable goods for low-income population. Goods are quite pricey. Unbelievable.

  • @gwarlow
    @gwarlow 8 месяцев назад +58

    5:01 I bought organic brocolli recently - compared to the standard version. Yes, it was more expensive, but it was green all the way through (instead of yellow or white in the interior - the part you don’t see until you get it home) and it tasted like brocolli, instead of having very little if any taste at all. Taste seems to have been genetically modified out of many of the standard fruits and vegetables we buy, in order to guarantee a longer shelf life - sadly. I still buy the standard versions of many vegetables and fruit but splurge occassionally - when I want to taste the “food” that I am already paying grossly inflated prices for.

    • @TheSuperTeacherStudent
      @TheSuperTeacherStudent 8 месяцев назад +13

      Produce in Europe tastes so much better than in the US. GMOs are illegal there.

    • @Christina-sf4py
      @Christina-sf4py 8 месяцев назад +9

      @gwarlow..to be fair, I do same as you, I notice organic varies alot in flavour and value, so it's kinda of a lucky dip. Organic is more at the mercy of weather and various conditions. When it's good it's very good.

    • @onegreenev
      @onegreenev 8 месяцев назад +4

      @@Christina-sf4py If you buy organic and it still tastes like the cardboard stuff it is likely NOT organic but has had an organic label attached. Not likely the supermarket is going to go out of their way to investigate if your claim of organic is true or not. So the companies just continue until they get caught and pay a slight fine when caught and continue after over and over again. Its a thing.

    • @patriciarouse16
      @patriciarouse16 8 месяцев назад

      So poison corporation glob brainwashed organic food is refered to as a " speciality food". The one without the poison " specialty".

    • @Teney1994
      @Teney1994 8 месяцев назад

      @@TheSuperTeacherStudent Eastern Europe is one level higher than western Europe, try eating food there. Especially balkans, where the big food companies have yet to arrive en grande.

  • @johnl9135
    @johnl9135 8 месяцев назад +10

    The smarter the gadgets, the dumber people become.

  • @Starryeyed353
    @Starryeyed353 8 месяцев назад +22

    Love this series! Would love to hear you talk about how diets are a scam. Anti Diet by Christy Harrison is a great resource for this. She also covers a bunch of health and wellness scams.

    • @jvnd2785
      @jvnd2785 8 месяцев назад

      I don't think such a talk would ever see the light on this channel. Nicole would have to admit to following the biggest diet scam there is...

    • @Kliban1234
      @Kliban1234 8 месяцев назад

      @@jvnd2785 What do you mean?

    • @skylarsartnphotography3450
      @skylarsartnphotography3450 8 месяцев назад

      I see nothing wrong with educating yourself on health and wellness(excluding those fad diet scams) but one of the biggest scams ever is any mlm or network marketing company! To me, they almost even come close to being very cultlike

    • @Christina-sf4py
      @Christina-sf4py 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@jvnd2785really which one. Genuine question

    • @kennixox262
      @kennixox262 8 месяцев назад +1

      Keto has been ruined. I just call it low carb but what I really do is avoid ALL ultra processed foods. If one wants to talk about scams, research the food industry and the crap that they add and then ask why the majority of people are overweight.

  • @pennyzee5975
    @pennyzee5975 8 месяцев назад +4

    Oh...love your content but I'm sorry--the opinion on orgaic is very off..Have taken classes and attended so many farm conferences, organic food is better usually. Forging a relationship with a local or regional farmer is even better. I don't want to pay more for food but there's many reasons to choose organic (and I don't mean foods labelled organic in name only).

    • @AccordingtoNicole
      @AccordingtoNicole  8 месяцев назад +1

      Farm conferences are routed in skewed opinions that generate sales, not science. But it is 100% you’re right to pay $17 for blueberries if you wish.

    • @pennyzee5975
      @pennyzee5975 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@AccordingtoNicole This is not entirely true. MOSES is a very large, small farm conference in Wisconsin--again emphasis on smaller, non subsidized farms. I've worked for small farmers who specialized in meat production, and many who specialized in diversified vegetable production. Very different crop and livestock management than on large farms. I could go on but your opinion does a serious discredit to these hardworking farmers who have spent years of time apprenticing, investing time in formal education, and spent years working off farm too to 'subsidize" their low paying farming efforts. Glyphosate in foods and how it affects health is another matter. There's so many important issues pertaining to farming and regional and local economies, NAFTA, the connection between human health and food, for one to explore. I love your content but wasn't expecting this lack of humility on a very important subject being marginalized like this.

    • @pennyzee5975
      @pennyzee5975 8 месяцев назад +2

      I realize it was sarcasm but none of the blueberry farmers or stores that sell them charge $17 for blueberries. Nor do I need to source that particular crop organic..our farms charge more for several pounds when in season though. It's still a bargain.

    • @BrianK-zz4fk
      @BrianK-zz4fk 8 месяцев назад +3

      sustainable farms are better for the environment. This mass farming is completely destorying the soil thus need to pump tons of fertilizer to get any yield now. Only buy things in season as you dont know where or how long it traveled to get to you plus it is cheaper and tastes better.

  • @Chirp-zi4nx
    @Chirp-zi4nx 8 месяцев назад +8

    You’re off base about organic food.

  • @ericstropicalparadise1935
    @ericstropicalparadise1935 8 месяцев назад +44

    We’ve got to talk about the organic thing. Use of synthetic fertilizers isn’t inherently bad for humans but the product produced from it is inferior in 2 major ways. 1, synthetic fertilizers make soils salty, strip them of their carbon, and kill beneficial soil life in the process. Over time this degrades the land and makes farmers more reliant on the synthetic stuff to the point where they’re using huge amounts that ends up causing harmful algae blooms somewhere far away and the farmers crops keep getting worse year after year. All this while the big chemical companies keep consolidating power in an area that we shouldn’t have given them our power. Also there is the talk of trace minerals such as calcium, iron, zinc etc. As a negative byproduct of killing off the soil life, plants can’t form the beneficial connections they usually do with soil life that helps them obtain these trace element. Instead they only eat the nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium found in synthetic fertilizers. This lack of holistic nutrition of the plant results in pest susceptible plant that are more reliant on pesticides that aren’t the best to consume. This reliance on pesticides also consolidates power in the hands of the few mega corps. Organic foods while having their flaws are holistically the lesser of two evil. These practices over time build up or maintain soil health and crops have more of those other trace minerals. However before signing off I’d like to inform you of a style of farming that is basically organic farming on steroids. It’s called permaculture. Heavily simplifying its especially when you create a self sustaining, self replicating forest that produces food and over time as it establishes more requires less input from the human until it’s totally hands off. It’s a huge rabbit hole to go down and definitely one that us “f the system” type of people would appreciate. And that’s why conventional crops are a scam.

    • @dianawilde417
      @dianawilde417 8 месяцев назад +7

      well explained.

    • @Ciara116
      @Ciara116 8 месяцев назад +4

      Permaculture FTW

    • @lailja21
      @lailja21 8 месяцев назад +4

      Yes ... and yet another form of farming beyond organic is called regenerative farming. It's progress.

    • @ericstropicalparadise1935
      @ericstropicalparadise1935 8 месяцев назад +5

      @@lailja21 correct, permaculture is a form of regenerative agriculture.👍🏻

    • @virginiav.1172
      @virginiav.1172 8 месяцев назад +4

      you explained his so well, thanks.

  • @catherinesmitko
    @catherinesmitko 8 месяцев назад +23

    hi nicole!
    i think buying organic food is less about what fertilizer is used and more about eliminating the myriad of carcinogenic pesticides used in farming…the ones that are proven to cause cancer, adhd, and autism.
    thanks for the great content and your fierce opinions ❤

    • @stephenjohn904
      @stephenjohn904 8 месяцев назад +6

      paying extra for certain organic food is certainly worth it- eggs come to mind. more nutrients vs caged. and tubers are better organic so are blueberries

    • @skylarsartnphotography3450
      @skylarsartnphotography3450 8 месяцев назад +4

      Grow your own and start up a garden....less you have to buy from a grocery, the better you do and better health a bonus....or if you don't want to garden, find a poor, struggling farmer and work out a deal for buying food from them-a win-win situation

    • @gordonpi8674
      @gordonpi8674 8 месяцев назад

      Also, there is always water and baking soda to wash your produce well from the manure. 😊

    • @stuffthatijustsay5523
      @stuffthatijustsay5523 8 месяцев назад +1

      This. I get anaphylaxis when I eat certain fruits, but this doesn't happen when I buy the organic varieties. And yes, I wash tf outta the non-organic first.

    • @JonMartinYXD
      @JonMartinYXD 8 месяцев назад

      Misinformation alert! We do not know what causes ADHD or autism. There are hypotheses but nothing that has risen to the level of a theory. For ADHD there does seem to be a strong - as in 70-80% - genetic link.

  • @smartypants1980
    @smartypants1980 8 месяцев назад +26

    The latest scam I heard about was the new X Credit card. Elon is jumping into the debt game. One day people will say "Remember when Grandma used Cash."

    • @colleenmarin8907
      @colleenmarin8907 8 месяцев назад +2

      20 years ago, when I worked at a supermarket, we all thought cash and checks would be nearly extinct by 2023 - it's strange how slowly some things progress compared to our expectations

    • @johnathin0061892
      @johnathin0061892 8 месяцев назад

      All credit cards are a scam. Debt is a scam. Merchants having to pay a percentage to a third party just to accept money from someone is a scam. Credit card "rewards" are a huge scam. Always pay with cash when you can, stop participating in a system that is nothing but a scam.

    • @chrism8180
      @chrism8180 8 месяцев назад +1

      That's funny. It seems this is the direction companies when they are on their last leg. And then there will be some "information breach" that leaks everyone's personal info

    • @onegreenev
      @onegreenev 8 месяцев назад

      You do realize that Elon created PayPal don’t you? X Credit wouldn’t be a new thing for him. He’s been in the money game for a long time. Good on him for making money. You too can do that. He just has more to start with than you. You are free to do the same. Heck, maybe your’s would be better.

    • @VideoGameStarChannelSupreme
      @VideoGameStarChannelSupreme 8 месяцев назад +2

      Some operations are going fully cashless if not forcing you to do everything online.
      I'm starting to miss the good old days of pre-pandemic

  • @Pemulis1
    @Pemulis1 8 месяцев назад +3

    The organic thing is yes and no. The word 'organic' has been adulterated to death. Like 'love', 'beautiful'. 'genius'... it means almost nothing, However, veggies with pesticide residue are less healthy than veggies without. Glyphosate (which is everywhere, especially grains) is such a probable carcinogen that Monsanto (now Bayer) is losing lawsuits. Giant monocrops destroy soil, insects, birds and rodents (etc,) and again, are ALWAYS soused in pesticides. The hormones and antibiotics in animals are being passed along to people who eat them (which is a probable reason why little girls are getting breasts in grade school and for the rise in antibiotic resistant bacteria). But your point holds in that governing bodies have been bribed to allow the word 'organic' on products that are not. Also, 'organic' is also attached to things that the word is irrelevant to, like garlic - bugs don't bother garlic so there's no need for an organic label, but they stick one on, anyway, As far as I know, artificial fertilizer is as good as manure, though manure can be so much cheaper (especially for organic farmers) that it's worth it. Just wash your veggies (which you should be doing anyway).
    As for the land area thing, I believe that you are wrong on that (though I could be wrong about your being wrong). My understanding from multiple sources is that small organic farms are far, far more productive than corporate monocrops, and can be grown so as to fortify the land rather than strip it of topsoil and nutrients. To the point where with just a couple of acres a smart organic farmer can make a good living. The problem with real organic farming is it's labor-intensive, so the profit-margin is far smaller than with giant tracts of land worked by giant machines. There's no extra money to pay executives stupid wages and shareholders dividends for doing squat. SO corporations don't do it, and then claim (honestly) that there's no way that organic farms can feed the world. Which is true, insofar as there are not enough organic farmers to grow on x acres what corporations grow on 1000x acres, though those corporate operations are destroying soil and sucking up groundwater to a degree that they are not sustainable (but they don't care - more than eight quarters out means 'never' in the corporate mind).

    • @pennyzee5975
      @pennyzee5975 8 месяцев назад +2

      Exactly! I don't think she understands she's referencing corporate "organic" foods which have very much co-opted this term. I'd also surmise she may not have been exposed to or live near an area that has stores or small farms that mainly offer food from smaller producers that typically have to be more transparent and educate the customer while forging a long term relationship. The label organic at a large supermarket is going to mean something different than one working directly with consumers. I've seen so many get out of farming because it doesn't pay. Having seen this firsthand and also worked with small but "nonorganic" farmers, I'm really amazed that the public still thinks of food as just a matter of what is it going to cost me vs the other factors on their health.

  • @TylerG7777
    @TylerG7777 8 месяцев назад +17

    Regarding wearable tech, i totally agree. I bought a Fitbit watch 4 years ago. It’s a ridiculous source of mild anxiety. I feel lament when my steps for the day are low. I’m always aware when I might be losing steps on the counter, like if I’m using that hand to push the shopping cart. When it’s cold outside and I’m walking the dog, I literally don’t put my hand in my pocket, because then I’m “losing steps”. I have to remember to put it back on the charger every other day. I have a mental debate each night about taking it off before I go to sleep, because it’s more comfortable, but then I’m losing my sleep data. It’s ridiculous. It’s insane. I can’t wait for it to die. But I can’t bring myself to just throw it away because it works perfectly. And who’s going to buy a 4 yr old used Fitbit? Help. Help.

    • @krystiesolfyre5340
      @krystiesolfyre5340 8 месяцев назад +5

      You could try. You never know. Or give it away as a gift to someone who may need it for medical reasons. But if it’s a net negative for you, cut the cord! 😊 your peace is more important than what you spent.

    • @AccordingtoNicole
      @AccordingtoNicole  8 месяцев назад +2

      Someone will definitely buy it.

    • @learningisfun2108
      @learningisfun2108 8 месяцев назад +1

      I’d buy a four year old Fitbit! Is it a Surge?

    • @TylerG7777
      @TylerG7777 8 месяцев назад

      @@learningisfun2108 It’s a Versa.

    • @KathyBlixrud
      @KathyBlixrud 8 месяцев назад +1

      My fitnus started shocking my wrist. I bought a different watch and it won't connect. I will try again. I need to know my sleep so I don't get put on a cpap. I have a $1200 one packed away on my closet already.

  • @jennyschmidt7157
    @jennyschmidt7157 8 месяцев назад +4

    Love this discussion. As a mother, I need to stay in contact with the school. I bought my Apple Watch when I worked in a factory when I was unable to bring my phone onto the factory floor.
    Since then I have used the watch for health reasons. I tracked my heart rate after getting Covid the third time.

  • @TheNewMediaoftheDawn
    @TheNewMediaoftheDawn 8 месяцев назад +2

    Interesting…: Agree on VV except as a poor person I’ve got some awesome cheap stuff, like cookware, crystal glasses, designer almost new clothes for cheap like 15$ for a wool long coat, however, haven’t been in 2-3 yrs, so I’m less concerned it’s for profit if it’s a good service, but maybe it’s more expensive now. As for organic food, true commercial fertilizer isn’t that bad for you, but it harms the soil making the food less nutritious, and destroying the soil life, google soil food web, and nutrient lock-up/lock-out, cheers🎉

  • @smartypants1980
    @smartypants1980 8 месяцев назад +15

    I'm Disabled and my disabiled friends tell me to not work for goodwill, but goodwill helped me so I stand by goodwill.

    • @moredatesmorefiber3526
      @moredatesmorefiber3526 8 месяцев назад +2

      how did they help you?

    • @smartypants1980
      @smartypants1980 8 месяцев назад

      @@moredatesmorefiber3526 They had job coaches and work tests to see whay Id be good at for work. For some reason, I tested high for construction jobs. Its a little fitting cause my degree is in mechanichal design so I do like buiding stuff but constructiom is scary if you can't see well.

    • @seltzermint5
      @seltzermint5 8 месяцев назад +5

      I believe they are pretty good at providing job opportunities and aid to people who have trouble finding other employment and that is an admirable element of Goodwill. I also know in the USA they are broken up into divisions all over the states, for example I live in an area where we're between divisions and the way things are done in different divisions is MAJOR. Some are much better and less wasteful than others, it's a mix.

    • @smartypants1980
      @smartypants1980 8 месяцев назад

      @@seltzermint5 DVR services sent me to them after college.

    • @suseanneegoulet1033
      @suseanneegoulet1033 8 месяцев назад +2

      True about the different "companies" or charities running Goodwill stores. They are run very differently in my experience. One store south of me was focused more on helping local people get affordable clothing, appliances ect, although they will mark up some items they view as premium items too much. The other one north of me is highly focused on maximizing profit. They mark up used items purchased at Dollar Tree to over a dollar, crazy!

  • @susanbelrose2767
    @susanbelrose2767 8 месяцев назад +40

    I worked at valu village for 6 weeks. Most disgusting job ever. Items are hung up right out of bags they are donated in. This stuff is not washed as some people believe!! The gross or unsellable clothing are packed up and shipped to third world countries, this is absolutely not helping them. You can watch videos on how their shores are piled high with this garage from richer countries trying to cheap out on getting rid of it. Definitely big scam. Thanks Nicole for another eye opening , educating video.

    • @coriemulvey2580
      @coriemulvey2580 8 месяцев назад +8

      Everyone knows you have to wash stuff. It stinks in those kinds of stores.

    • @johnross2924
      @johnross2924 8 месяцев назад +5

      Is that why charity shops always stink?

    • @TheBigdog868
      @TheBigdog868 8 месяцев назад +3

      I never understood why dumping unsellable junk upon the third world was considered help. 😂

    • @BonerGrowingPains
      @BonerGrowingPains 8 месяцев назад

      @@johnross2924 yes, but it's also the people that shop in them tend to stink.

    • @junejunejuniejune
      @junejunejuniejune 8 месяцев назад +1

      thrifted or not you should ALWAYS wash clothes from the store omg. Even if you got a brand new shirt from Nordstrom, that shirt is full of chemicals from the factory that keep the shirt looking crisp and soft before washing, and then at the actual store sweaty strangers try that shit on, sometimes it's purchased and returned, sometimes people are gross and leave their try-ons balled up on the dirty floor. Stores do not wash clothes period, so its silly to assume a thrift store would wash it.

  • @JG-di8oi
    @JG-di8oi 8 месяцев назад +7

    Also you should make a "meat and dairy" is a scam video. Definitely might ruffle some feathers but it is so so true. Thanks girl! ❤❤❤

  • @dalelittlefield57
    @dalelittlefield57 8 месяцев назад +3

    Love you rants... I'm a 66 year old dumb guy with a smart phone, I've had my phone for 4years and still don't know half of what it does.

  • @brunogazaille1592
    @brunogazaille1592 8 месяцев назад +8

    On the notion of high tech, I noticed the options on how to watch a movie. First, the drive in: you need a car and the screen is very far. Then, there are movie theaters where you sit in a room with many people and the screen is several feet away. Then, you have the living room TV where the tv is a few feet from your face. But that was not good enough: people need to watch a movie on their portable phone. Worst, we are moving toward smart glasses where the screen is literally in your face. Pretty soon, it will still be too far; the information must but directly inside the brain to avoid any physical effort….

    • @Starry_Night_Sky7455
      @Starry_Night_Sky7455 8 месяцев назад

      Well movies are in your brain. Use your imagination. But that will need to be branded iMagine 1.0. It will be a subscription service. You won't own anything. This sounds rather dystopian, yikes!

  • @sallyprzybil2404
    @sallyprzybil2404 8 месяцев назад +8

    So agreed especially about organic food. I’m old enough to remember when it first cam out. There was a lot of advertising. I thought , ‘great. They use less expensive stuff to grow this food so it should be cheaper. Boy was I surprised when the Organic stuff, which was less expensive to grow, cost more! Yes, salaries are bad. I did it once, had to work so many hours, never got paid overtime, I ended up making about $5 an hour! They said I could take time off for extra hours worked, but it never worked out that way, because the time off had to be within a 2 week period, and we were usually so busy during those two weeks that I couldn’t be spared to take time off. Yep, a scam.

  • @bonriver9420
    @bonriver9420 8 месяцев назад +11

    Love your series. I don't agree with you on the organic food. Organic is definitely better than eating food that has been sprayed with glyphosate (RoundUp). The taste is so much better as well.

  • @carahallmancentralalabamaf2155
    @carahallmancentralalabamaf2155 8 месяцев назад +2

    I have mixed feelings about the organic produce. Yes it's a scam to make people pay more.. however, I can also say we have experimented with our pastures .. chicken opp or rabbit poop spread over our fields work alot better than ammonium nitrate or a bagged synthetic fertilizer. Not only can you tell from the grass, the soil looks better as well... Our cattle do much better since we have started fertilizing the fields this way.. but when I go in the grocery store, I pass over the organic stuff lol..there's no way I'm paying those prices.

  • @CassieDavis613
    @CassieDavis613 8 месяцев назад +6

    My favorite part of Sunday morning is watching your video while drinking a delicious cup of buttered coffee. Life is good. Nicole, Happy New Year.

    • @AccordingtoNicole
      @AccordingtoNicole  8 месяцев назад +7

      These comments always feel so wild to receive, because for years I’ve done the exact same thing with other people’s videos. It’s cool to know that I’m that creator for some people now.
      Thank you ☺️☺️☺️

  • @Nbaflashlight-Okeeriii-ecko
    @Nbaflashlight-Okeeriii-ecko 8 месяцев назад +1

    Im a jamaican highschool student youtube creater watching your videos ❤❤❤

  • @regiment6541
    @regiment6541 8 месяцев назад +2

    Funny how while you’re “exposing scams” you have sponsors offering scam services 😂

  • @andreabellini6796
    @andreabellini6796 8 месяцев назад +5

    I can afford brand new but would much rather buy used and save my money.

  • @karmageddon9136
    @karmageddon9136 8 месяцев назад +4

    The wearable electronics segment was interesting. People buy similar gadgets so that they can track their pets or their little ones.
    People these days enjoy paying to give away their privacy.

  • @glodechdocorimach1871
    @glodechdocorimach1871 8 месяцев назад +7

    I didn’t know payday loans were still a thing. I got caught up with this in the 90s. Yes I was one of those persons who really needed the money. Too proud to go to family. Realized it was a scam because they were quick to offer refinancing the loan. On the due date - not even the day after - the phone would start ringing. They wanted to know at what time I would be in to pay, reminding me of their late evening hours. Whenever I was there I heard them on the phone with customers. They were very condescending. I remember paying off the loan after about 3 months. That was 6 paychecks. The woman admitted that it was a scam without actually using the word.

  • @JoeBLOWFHB
    @JoeBLOWFHB 8 месяцев назад +2

    Scam #2 related
    I watched a "Market Place" YT video by the CBC about farmer's markets where many of the vendors were selling regular foods as "organic".
    They were paying a fraction of the price for factory farmed produce and selling it for huge markups.
    The big give away was the size uniformity and lack of flaws. Along with nonogranic labling. (The reporter pointed out the label barcodes returned non organic product descriptions).
    Most of the customers that were interviewed assumed the market vetted their vendors. Or the veracity of the Organic vendor signs were regulated by law. (They are but it is weakly enforced).
    So even if you think organic food is better there are people willing to cheat the unwary.

  • @jennkattz
    @jennkattz 8 месяцев назад +2

    Have you talked yet about new car dealer add on where they will do things like tint windows or add an anti theft device and add the cost onto the window sticker so that it gets added to the MSRP. If you aren’t paying attention, you can line the dealerships pocket with thousands in stuff you don’t want and didn’t even come with the car.

  • @spadog63
    @spadog63 6 месяцев назад +2

    I never answer a number I don't recognize. If it's important they will leave a message.

  • @alonememe
    @alonememe 8 месяцев назад +4

    1:49 Well, id doesn't matter, as long as unwanted stuff is going to the next people and not to the landfill.

  • @marshaphonda7057
    @marshaphonda7057 8 месяцев назад +5

    I totally disagree on your view on organic food.
    It is logical that if pesticide is killing weeds and bugs and snails it will kill you too. Not right away but in some years.

    • @AccordingtoNicole
      @AccordingtoNicole  8 месяцев назад +2

      A shoe can kill bugs and snails, but not humans. Proportions matter.

    • @rosieposie9564
      @rosieposie9564 8 месяцев назад +2

      Are you a weed, a bug or a snail?

    • @cosmictraveler1146
      @cosmictraveler1146 8 месяцев назад

      That’s not how that works….

    • @marshaphonda7057
      @marshaphonda7057 8 месяцев назад +4

      @@AccordingtoNicole yes, proportions matter. But if you eat poison over a long period of time it will make you sick and kill you.
      We eat organic food and we feed our cat with organic cat food. Health is our luxury even as minimalists. ;-)

    • @BrianK-zz4fk
      @BrianK-zz4fk 8 месяцев назад +2

      depends on the product. The whole none GMO scam is not a problem for me but spraying with glypcine, round up, is the problem as massive lawsuits have been paided out for medical issues with its use.

  • @MatthewTheWanderer
    @MatthewTheWanderer 8 месяцев назад +1

    I HATE Goodwill! Being inside one just feels gross and icky like failure. Also, I hate how they have billboards that simply say, "Goodwill provides jobs!" That is idiotic for multiple reasons, including: 1) ALL businesses provide jobs!, so this doesn't make them special, 2) these jobs all have terrible pay and benefits, 3) they don't even provide that many jobs in the first place, and 4) if that is all they have to say regarding why you should shop there, then what they sell must really suck (but that goes without saying, I guess).

  • @MatthewTheWanderer
    @MatthewTheWanderer 8 месяцев назад +1

    WTF!? Overtime doesn't start until you work more than 44 hours in Canada? Wow, that sucks! In the US, it's 40 hours. Even then, I rarely ever get any overtime. When I worked at Walt Disney World, they also paid us overtime if we worked more than 8 hours in a day, so you might get some overtime, even if you work less than 40 hours per week. But, they are the only company I know of that does it that way.

  • @jayvbspdx
    @jayvbspdx 8 месяцев назад +1

    13:01 I have a regular, non-smart Rolex. I keep it so I don't have to pull my iPhone out all the time just to check the time. It wastes my mobile's battery just turning on the screen to check the time. I don't think that makes me lazy; it's my conscientiousness about energy that has me wearing my time on my wrist. And it's not even a smartwatch! I mean to say, that's a weak argument. Convenience ≠ lazy. Sometimes your phone is too packed away to reach to see who's calling within 28 seconds.
    All the other points about wearable tech are spot on.

  • @brucemorris3830
    @brucemorris3830 8 месяцев назад +2

    It might be redundant to the “wearable tech” point, but I think “smart appliances” are the dopiest thing I ever heard of. I don’t need a text message from my refrigerator telling me to buy groceries, or a push notification from my washing machine to tell me the cycle is done 😂

  • @233kosta
    @233kosta 8 месяцев назад +2

    The techiest wearable I have is a heart rate monitor. I use it on the rare occasions when I muster the will power to go to the gym. It's been a great help with not overdoing cardio.
    No app, no "tracking", no other creepy nonsense the tech industry would have us believe is "totally nit creepy, we promise!", just a semi-reliable number I can glance at to make sure I'm not overdoing the treadmill.

  • @ltxr9973
    @ltxr9973 8 месяцев назад +1

    The biggest scam are videos the have numbers in them. Like "5 Scams", "Top 10" and such. It's all just stupid clickbait to play the algorithm but it's bad for the viewer because they get bad, formulaic content. I don't even give videos with titles like that the benefit of the doubt anymore, I just block the channels that made them without watching.

  • @AlanGreenhalgh-g6w
    @AlanGreenhalgh-g6w 5 месяцев назад +1

    Nicole you are so wise. I agree with everything you said. Only fools waste money on all that high tech rubbish. I dont, I dont need it. My phone and my laptop is as far as I'm willing to go. Best wishes from Cornwall, uk.

  • @girldavis291
    @girldavis291 6 месяцев назад +1

    I volunteered at a non profit donation center. They started asking us volunteers for cash donations...then they cut out our discount on all items they resold except for crappy worn no name brand clothing. I got injured and they filled my sport while I was out. It was a wake up call as I most of us were over 66 and were working 5 hours days 3-4 days a week. Funny how when actual paid positions arose none of us were ever qualified, but employees friends were. I wised up and did not go back.

  • @planesandbikes7353
    @planesandbikes7353 8 месяцев назад +1

    First 3 are scams. last 2 are not. Apple watch is great, means I do NOT have to carry my phone, and with my heart condition my cardiologist wants me to keep my HR under 135, and the watch helps with this. Also at work in a medical field I cannot touch my computer or phone with dirty medical gloves but I can get my Slack notifications from colleagues on the watch in real time. Finally compensation is something negotiated between employer and employee and it really matters not being hourly vs salaried vs commission, what really matters is how much you make for how much or how little you work in a year . Folks need to stop thinking paycheque to paycheque and look at the big picture - do the math to reveal the truth, fair vs scam. Benefits at work, otoh, can be a big distraction, a shell game played by employers and unions to reduce compensation or redistribute your wage to others.

  • @thegriffinwithin
    @thegriffinwithin 8 месяцев назад +1

    I guess if people are giving their clothes to the value stores at least its not going into landfill. In relation to Listeria outbreaks, in Australia its actually been linked to human faeces being used as fertiliser 🤢 I have a phone and a laptop ... no need for the rest, although the buttplug???? LOL. And yep Salaries are BS. I feel very hemmed in when I have a permanent job, I much prefer the flexibility of casual or per hour jobs and I like getting paid for how much work I do. Salaries are good to get a home loan and stability I guess but you lose control of your life.

  • @squifurgie
    @squifurgie 8 месяцев назад +1

    A LOT of charities are a scam. They are often run by big corporations and have an alternate purpose from their supposed cause. Like tax write-offs and things like that.

  • @orthoplex64
    @orthoplex64 8 месяцев назад +1

    A few months ago, my dad's fitbit (or whatever it is) detected his heart rate was too low and woke him up. So he went in for a checkup, and they found extensive blockage in his heart and put in a stint. Those things may be scams in general, but in this case it arguably saved my dad's life.

  • @fathuman
    @fathuman 8 месяцев назад +1

    At my last job, whenever I finished my work early, I just got given more work. I got given more equipment so I could do more work quicker. And if I finished early and there was no more work, then I'd be sent in the basement to do things which were not in my job description. On top of that meetings were typically set at 1630 because they knew that meetings tended to take longer than half an hour so they effectively pushed the meetings into our personal time. It was a thousand little bites of the cherry, extracting as much value as possible from us employees for as little money as possible. I'm self-employed now and I work as much as I damn well please. God help me if the work dries up because I'll die before I go back working for the man.

  • @Van-zf9iw
    @Van-zf9iw 8 месяцев назад +5

    10K steps are pretty easy to figure out for me - about an hour and a half walking at a normal gait. Two hours if I am walking both dogs at the same time.

    • @AccordingtoNicole
      @AccordingtoNicole  8 месяцев назад +5

      This might blow your mind, but 10k steps is a scam too. It’s a completely arbitrary number picked by the companies that made the original pedometers.

    • @shawnaford5540
      @shawnaford5540 8 месяцев назад +1

      The 10,000 was a marketing tool, and. It necessarily relates to your individual needs. My mom with severe foot arthritis and before the knee replacement would feel so bad for not getting 10,000 steps.

    • @Van-zf9iw
      @Van-zf9iw 8 месяцев назад

      I used to be able to walk all day, in army boots. Forty years ago lol.@@AccordingtoNicole

  • @jackmatheus
    @jackmatheus 8 месяцев назад +2

    Maybe 7 parts is too much.

  • @Wraith_911
    @Wraith_911 8 месяцев назад +1

    Organic comes with the grass-fed beef and cage-free eggs
    i'm a nice guy...i like my critters happy...before i eat them 😋

  • @mortanicus5871
    @mortanicus5871 8 месяцев назад +4

    Not all salaried positions take advantage of their employees. I'm a salaried employee, but I make great money, have great benefits, and they never ask me to work more than 40 hours. If I call in sick, they don't give me a hard time about it; I get paid for that day AND I don't have to make it up. I'm just expected to keep my desk current, and that is all. Of course this is a salaried position for local government, which is probably much much different from one in private industry.

    • @seltzermint5
      @seltzermint5 8 месяцев назад +1

      I agree, I think there are positions like that especially in local government and non-profits. I had a similar job and it was very fair. We received comp time for any hours worked over 40. It also included great benefits and ample time off for sickness and vacation. But I do think there are WAY more salaried positions out there taking major advantage of their employees. My friend used to work 60+ hours at a machine shop salaried and he did all right financially with a pretty high salary - but when you broke down the hourly wage it was still low.

    • @mortanicus5871
      @mortanicus5871 8 месяцев назад

      Yes and from what I hear, organizations that take advantage are the rule and not the exception. They are usually looking out for the shareholders and not the employees. Some of Nicole's content sure makes me grateful for my job @@seltzermint5

  • @Nunman1962
    @Nunman1962 8 месяцев назад +3

    Totally agree with this list! I love my tech (I build PC's on the side), but the wearable tech thing is out of hand as you said! I used to wear an android watch (I wore mine for the convenience of not having to set the time or date, not about 'health' benefits) but I wasn't allowed to wear it where I work, so I wore my 'normal' watch and to tell the truth, I don't miss wearing that android watch at all now!

  • @duanethompson8770
    @duanethompson8770 8 месяцев назад +6

    The payday loan scam is so over the top that I’ve wished for many years that it would be made illegal. Thanks for your continuing series on scams.

    • @resourcedragon
      @resourcedragon 8 месяцев назад

      It is illegal in some countries. It has sort of re-emerged here in Australia and I believe they re going to clamp down on it - as they absolutely shouldn'

  • @TMeyer-ge5pj
    @TMeyer-ge5pj 8 месяцев назад +1

    I never thought that thrift stores were charities. Who thinks that ? Of course they're making money. Most people just donate there cause it's easy

  • @sandrabryan9106
    @sandrabryan9106 8 месяцев назад +4

    It was aggravating getting calls (as early as 6 am) about my broken computer even though I kept telling them I didn't have one. Now I am not as polite and I am sure they think I have tourettes by now. Even though I've registered to stop those calls (another scam) It didn't help. I might look into that Aura. If Canada Revenue calls me because of "arrears" owing, I ask them their id # and then tell them to send me the information via mail since they already have my address. Then I report the call to revenue Canada=scam. I was told that the seeds themselves were being saturated in pesticide and yet grown organically-this info came from agriculture researchers. it sure gave me something to think about.

  • @dianemayberry1291
    @dianemayberry1291 8 месяцев назад +6

    Totally agree about thrift stores and organic things. I was so naive and proud to donate clothing only to be shocked with the information that more times than not the employees pick through everything and take the really good stuff home for themselves! Plus having a friend who used to work for certain growers tell me that the water and soil from the non organic veggies runs right into the so called organic soil, go figure!

    • @Wingedshadowwolf
      @Wingedshadowwolf 8 месяцев назад +1

      Goodwill doesn't let employees take stuff. They don't even let them buy stuff unless it's been on the shelf for a certain amount of time! Which I don't really agree with.

    • @pablodelsegundo9502
      @pablodelsegundo9502 8 месяцев назад

      Yes, nothing is truly organic. PFAS chemicals and microplastics (at the very least) are literally everywhere and already inside of us.

    • @resourcedragon
      @resourcedragon 8 месяцев назад +1

      Employees/volunteers snaffling the best donations for themselves is an oldie - I first heard about that one at least 45 years ago. However, as @Wingedshadowwolf points out, some "thrift" stores don't let employees do that.

  • @kikitauer
    @kikitauer 8 месяцев назад +1

    I have coule issues even though I agree with most of it:
    1) Thrifted clothes are better for the environment. I don't mind people getting paid for it.
    2) Organic food might surprise us in the future. It is mostly about glyphosates. I recently watched a podcast about its influence over gut microbiome and spoiler alert - it's probably not good. Oats are particularly bad. We'll see.

  • @aBluegrassPicker
    @aBluegrassPicker 8 месяцев назад +4

    I love these videos. Can we have one positive video this year, or is that too off brand? 🤣

  • @bluestripes6037
    @bluestripes6037 8 месяцев назад +5

    Y'all don't get overtime on salary? That's.. That *is* a scam

    • @seltzermint5
      @seltzermint5 8 месяцев назад

      it's like that in the USA also. It's basically the meaning of a salaried position. I once worked a salary job however where they let you take comp time for ALL hours worked over 40 and it was strict in a good way about that. So I basically had flexible hours. Otherwise I wouldn't have worked a salaried job. I am in HR and a manager in my company and I'm still hourly and do not want to go salaried at all.

  • @SoulfulVeg
    @SoulfulVeg 8 месяцев назад +1

    Wearable tech is very big brother. I don't need a big corporation knowing about my sleep cycle, heart rate, BP, etc.

  • @suseanneegoulet1033
    @suseanneegoulet1033 8 месяцев назад +4

    Goodwill in the US takes the more valuable items donated for charity and auctions/lists them on eBay to make more money. Last time I went, you could sometimes find items in their store that you could buy cheaper at the dollar store up the street. Buyer beware.

    • @jnharton
      @jnharton 8 месяцев назад

      To be fair, Goodwill is at least a non-profit organization.
      So in principle none of the money earned is going into a shareholders' pocket or to anyone else aside from their and any employee benefits. Corruption is still a problem just like with anything operated by people.
      I would tend to see the issue more as people not actually knowing how Goodwill operates, what their objective and focus is, etc. They may also be unaware that the Goodwill stores in one state may not be operated by the same non-profit entity as those that are in another state.

  • @rickher4794
    @rickher4794 8 месяцев назад +3

    Organic and fresh is better. I know the difference. Thanks.

    • @rosieposie9564
      @rosieposie9564 8 месяцев назад +1

      Frozen tends to be more nutritious than fresh even though for some things fresh might taste better admittedly. There is no real difference in taste between organic and non organic or perhaps some people can detect the taste of all that manure in the organic produce.

  • @macforme
    @macforme 8 месяцев назад +1

    You are spot on every one of your points. So glad I found your channel.... I have a lot of homework to catch up on your past videos and am looking forwards to them. 👍

  • @drewo6388
    @drewo6388 8 месяцев назад +1

    Yes! Another great one! How about two more obvious scams: Teslas/Electric Vehicles (super expensive and equallly awful for the environment as gas powered cars) and Recycling. Recycling is a huge scam. Very little plastic we put in the recycling bins actually gets recycled. Most of it ends up in landfills or sent to some third world country. Love this series! Keep it up!

  • @sylviaodhner
    @sylviaodhner 8 месяцев назад +4

    If the only main difference between a thrift shop and a normal retail store is that a thrift store sells used clothes, I'd still rather buy from a thrift shop. It's much more environmentally friendly.

    • @seltzermint5
      @seltzermint5 8 месяцев назад +3

      I agree with this and shop at all thrift stores. But when it comes to donating my good used items I am pickier about which ones I'll support. I know Salvation Army gets a bad rap for a lot of reasons too but I know in my city they donate a huge amount of clothes and toiletry items directly to those in need so I feel good about donating to them. I also like getting rid of (for example) an old sofa and seeing it right there in the store for 50 or 75 bucks so people needing furniture could potentially afford that much better than new.

  • @jjjones4982
    @jjjones4982 8 месяцев назад +3

    I worked in payroll & would argue with the payday loan employees who would phone to confirm employment. I would refuse & tell them to tell the person to go directly to our bank to cash their pay check or to come to payroll to ask for an advance.

  • @jillmeader5882
    @jillmeader5882 8 месяцев назад +1

    Your bangs make you look tired or sleep y maybe you do not 😘 care

  • @rdmineer1
    @rdmineer1 8 месяцев назад +1

    In most workplaces using a Smartwatch won't get you fired, where looking at a cell phone likely will. That's why they are so popular.

  • @Madmark50484
    @Madmark50484 8 месяцев назад +1

    In the Uk we have charity shops. When you see what the charity gets from the shop it’s a joke.

  • @toddmarshall2726
    @toddmarshall2726 8 месяцев назад +3

    A lot of people donate clothing for tax purposes.

  • @magikmycology6660
    @magikmycology6660 8 месяцев назад +1

    Also, the people who work at the thrift stores steal all the good stuff before it ever hits the shelves.

  • @NybergCarl
    @NybergCarl 8 месяцев назад +2

    The "organic" conversation is probably enough material for multiple RUclips channels.

  • @lynneivison5773
    @lynneivison5773 8 месяцев назад +6

    I have never ever bought organic - it always seemed blindingly obvious that there was no way of proving it was actually organic

    • @seltzermint5
      @seltzermint5 8 месяцев назад

      this is how we feel in my household also. So many vague and less than credible labeling methods make it impossible to verify in most cases. We may buy 10 or 20 percent organic produce but it's just because it looks good and is at a price we consider acceptable. We do not put much stock into the organic claims at all. I have also seen people buying conventional produce at the supermarket and scraping off the stickers and selling it at the farmer's market calling it farm fresh and organic. Just to make a buck. It probably happens WAY more than you would guess.