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* Corporate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking Rent-seeking]. | * Corporate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking Rent-seeking]. | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeshare Timeshares]. | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeshare Timeshares]. | ||
* Marketing that targets children and the elderly | |||
* The right-wing economic ecosystem, (guns, flags, [https://www.npr.org/2022/09/07/1121447226/steve-bannon-fraud-charges fake border walls], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lindell pillows], supplements, gold coins, etc.) | * The right-wing economic ecosystem, (guns, flags, [https://www.npr.org/2022/09/07/1121447226/steve-bannon-fraud-charges fake border walls], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lindell pillows], supplements, gold coins, etc.) | ||
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See Scams
Grift is used in favor of scam because it also includes legal but ethically questionable business models that permeate modern capitalism. Examples include:
- Pseudoscientific medicines, supplements and fad diets.
- Pyramid schemes and multi-level marketing.
- Corporate Rent-seeking.
- Timeshares.
- Marketing that targets children and the elderly
- The right-wing economic ecosystem, (guns, flags, fake border walls, pillows, supplements, gold coins, etc.)