Curious to hear of various methods towards wealth, Redditor Cone-shaped_Man-tits asked:
"What is the most unethical, but legal, way to get rich quick?"
You can't say they're not dedicated.
The Crash
"I made my money the old fashioned way...."
"🎵I got run over by a Lexuuusssss."
– _Ruby_Tuesday
Something To Write About
"Selling books about getting rich quick."
– StoissEd
"Buy my book for $40 dollars on how to get people to buy your book for $40."
– Con_Dinn_West
Marital Bli$$
"Marriage for money."
"You can marry in a minute what you can make in a lifetime."
– knottajotta
"Yeah a buddy actually offered me 30k once to 'marry' someone so they could easily immigrate over. After so much time you can just legally divorce and forget about it. The problem is that in the meantime immigration officers watch you like a hawk and you have to continually act like a real married couple. Stage photos, fake outings together. It really seemed like way more trouble than it's worth"
– Miramarr
Pays To Be Clever
"If you're clever you can make good money abusing trademark & patent laws."
"Real estate has a ton of dark corners for the ethically flexible, so long as you don't mind being compared to a vulture."
– answermethis0816
Pay To Be Audacious
"Run an Alpha Male Camp. Charge $10k for the week long stay."
– InspectorG-007
Getting On Wikipedia
"Being a paid shill on Wikipedia. I get paid between $200-$500 to create articles about people and organizations who want more publicity. Some people pay more than $1,000 to get a Wikipedia article."
"Edit: I do this with a website called Upwork. It helps to have knowledge of Wikipedia's policies so your paid activities look less suspicious."
– jaoo1
Persuasive salespeople and gullible customers make for the perfect combo.
Go Guru
"become a fake guru and sell courses about nothing."
– jooints
"I love how these gurus are constantly advertising on Facebook. 'My film business makes $6m per year, so do my $500 course and I’ll tell you how I did it!' A quick Google reveals they have a little office somewhere, no film or production credits to their name except maybe an advert or two from a few years back. It’s all utter make believe."
"And if you’re running a production company that makes $6m a year, why on earth are you travelling the world selling your snake oil so everyone else can do the same thing?"
"Sadly, always hundreds of comments from people excited to learn from a 'master.'"
– madjohnvane
The Witch Doctor
"I knew a guy who was a 'witch doctor.' He charged $25,000 to cast a spell to bring an ex-lover back to you. It never worked but there was nothing that could really be done for you as he had all these forms stating that be made no guarantees since the spirit world did what it did. He was very popular too, which I could never understand."
"I told my wife I'm going to stop practicing law and become a witch doctor as the hours and pay are much better. She vetoed that idea."
– crimsonlaw
Advancing Incentive
"in app purchases in children's games."
– fridayisblackforme
"Candy crush becoming rich off Facebook moms."
– Vagabond21
Praise Be
“'You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.' ― L. Ron Hubbard (science fiction writer and founder of Scientology)"
– sudomatrix
All In The Marketing
"Selling cheap stuff like it's valuable without direct lying, only misleading, a** covered legally."
– Vlad_Dracul89
Taking Advantage Of The Naive
"Short term cash/payday loans."
"There is a commercial in my area for a short term loan place where they specifically say that a quick cash loan is the solution if all of your credit cards are maxed out. Preying on poor people with no financial skills."
– little_cock
Medical Scheme
"Buy patent rights to life saving medication and hike the price up sky high."
– Professional-Cry1633
The following are people who fell for what seemed like perfectly legit causes or plans.
A Royal Scheme
"Years ago when newspapers were more common, someone had a brilliant scheme. They had posted an advert that you could buy a portrait of the queen. It was cheap like f10,- so many people ordered. What they got in the end was a stamp send in the mail. Nothing illegal as it was indeed a portrait of our (then) queen."
– DeliriouslylySober
Viatical Settlements
"In the 80s there was a big boom in viatical settlements. Basically you pay someone to become the beneficiary of their life insurance policy. The assumption is they’ll die soon and you’ll get a big payout. They get the benefit of using the cash they’d never have been able to."
"A bunch of folks started buying up the policies from people with AIDS… and then the retroviral drugs hit the market and many of these people got paid millions and lived for many many more years."
– ThatPancreatitisGuy
Pet-Care Contracts
"My favorite is the person who (supposedly) sold pet-care 'contracts' that would kick in after the rapture, since many believers own pets and apparently pets won't be raptured."
"This person billed themselves as an atheist, so would remain behind and be available to care for the pets after their owners were gone."
"Legally, it couldn't be claimed that the rapture would not occur, so it was a valid agreement."
– NoMoreBeGrieved
Skewed Philanthropy
"Charities are only required to use a small portion of their donations towards the actual cause."
– RanmanGT1
People will do anything for money.
So make sure you don't fall for many of the manipulative schemes mentioned in the examples above.
Remember, if it sounds too good to be, it is.
And if you're making a king's ransom through unethical operations and are able to sleep at night, well, good on you, I guess.
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Redditor hugscar asked:
"What are unethical practices schools do?"
Some of these will shock you.
Zero tolerance policies.
"Bullied and harassed students having the same repercussions as their bully for defending themselves."- novato1995
"I remember when the zero tolerance policy started being applied to both/all parties, a behaviorist predicted an upswing of violence, plus an increase in violent intensity (from slaps to punches; from punches to stabbings; from stabbings to shootings)."
"If I am remembering right, that prediction is being found accurate."- liquidarc
Typography Number GIF by Kev LaveryGiphyA lack of consequences.
"I had a bully in middle school grab and twist my thumb hard enough to snap tendon (or whatever is in your thumb. It's been a while) and nothing happened to him since he would have to sit out football if he was punished."- TheLaughingSage
"So for my school I have 2 things."
"They have a no pass list."
"You are only allowed to be out for 5 minutes at most, and no passes first or last 10 minutes of class, no exceptions."
"If you break these rules, or you're just a b*tch/troublemaker in class enough times, you get put on the no pass list for at LEAST a week, so you get 0 passes at ALL."
"It could be for that class for a week, it could be the whole day for the rest of the year.
"I'm sitting at home with a concussion and not at school right now because some kid physically assaulted me."
"She gave me a concussion, two bruises, a red star shaped mark on my head, and 3 different muscle tissue injuries."
"Her doing this has prevented me from performing in front of thousands of people this Friday."
"She has not been punished or talked to at all."
"They have said 'I think you and her just have conflicting ideas and she might have been triggered by things in class and you really don't know each other well'."
" When she came up behind me, grabbed my hair, and yanked me down to the ground by my hair."
"This is bullshit especially because she did this earlier in the year too, and if she does it one more time especially since she is still at school and has not been punished in the slightest, my parents are going to press charges."- cat_lover_21.
Chained fire escapes.
"Our assembly room/gymnasium had the fire escape doors chained shut, and the police department was aware of it."- snarlyelder.
Required textbooks.
"Requiring you to purchase textbooks brand new from the college's bookstore because that's the only way to get the access code to complete the required assignments on the publishers website."- austininlaw
Limiting access to water.
"Less severe but limiting kids access to water, I.e. you can’t have your drink bottle at the table."
"Which sucks when you live in Australia and at summer the temperature gets up to 36c and school is during all the hottest hours of the day."- TeamLarge7729
Scorching Music Video GIFGiphyA "told you so" moment.
"I was a decently misbehaved third grader."
"Told my teacher I had a stomach ache and I needed to go to the nurse."
"I asked a number of times."
"She thought I was just trying to get out of individual reading time."
"My appendix burst on the bus ride home."
"I was never one to ask to go to the nurse."
"Just a hyperactive kid my teacher apparently had enough of."
"Denying medical attention to an 8 year old seems unethical."
"This is not a 'boy who cried wolf' story for all those saying 'I told ya so.'"- jurassicgrif
Bathroom access.
"Not allowing kids to use the restroom."
"As someone who was diagnosed with multiple reproductive issues at an early age, I had some pretty intense periods."
"And this rule made school even worse."
"Got the nickname 'Paint Bottle' because my school was infamous for denying the bathroom."
"they were closed to all students during a set time because of 'misuse') and I literally had no help from anyone at all. Never realized it was as bad for other people too."
- RebelRebelPebble
"Not being allowed to go the toilet."
"You gotta go, you know?"- Averyjackman.
Stay Out Fran Healy GIF by TravisGiphyInvasion of privacy.
"This is probably very specific to my home country but period checks."
"I'm from Malaysia and yes sadly this is a thing and I've witnessed it firsthand. Mostly to make sure girls aren't lying about their periods just to get out of prayer activities."- roticanaidraws.
We're failing our students by passing them.
"Passing students that aren't ready for the next grade because they need to pad their passing rates to keep funding."
"It's setting the kids up for failure down the road."- VoijaRisa
Happy Back To School GIF by Jimmy ArcaGiphyUnattainable prerequisites.
"Making classes a graduation requirement then not letting kids take those classes because they’re full since everyone needs to take them."- intense_fingerguns.
Cost Cutting Measures
"More of a University thing but using students as unpaid labor, mostly grad students and 'interns'."
"Also my school used prison labor to make all the dorms and dorm furniture, said that Healthcare for student workers was 'too luxurious' (exact quote!) and canceled it, canceled all shift meals for student workers, and raised our tuition to pay for our president's massive pay increase and to redo the stupid stadium used for Olympic trials for literally no reason."
"Literally I think he's the highest paid uni president in the US by a long shot."
" I know he gets a 400,000 every single YEAR for just his housing."
"You get a cookie if you can guess what uni I went to lol."- 1kingdweebus2
Money Minimum Wage GIF by Creative CourageGiphyDress codes.
"No hats or hoods."
"iI don't know if this rule is in another school but it was back then when i was in elementary, but you weren't allowed to bring fast food food."- Slow-Revolution-9617.
No facial hair policies.
"One of my old high schools had mandatory shaving."
"All guys must be clean shaven every day."
"And in the principals office was the cheapest bag of bulk single blade razors you’d ever seen."
"Sometimes they forgot to tell us where the shaving cream was."
"I started shaving in junior high so afternoon classes were 50/50 if they’d make me go shave."- GingerMarquis.
Sad School GIF by Ludo StudioYou're all in trouble.
"Collective punishment."
"This is a literal war crime according to Geneva Convention, so if you hate the teacher the gave a collective punishment, you can literally sue them in the international court and if the teacher will be found guilty, they wouldn’t be able to pay fines and fees due to their salary being low and will probably be in prison."
"School uniforms are a violation of human rights too because according to UN convention on the rights of a child a child has freedom of expression."
"Many schools will say it’s a local rule for students to wear uniforms in their school, but international laws are ABOVE the local ones."- fedunya1.
Too much homework.
"Giving a heavy workload in middle school/early high school and saying that it teaches time management. "
"All it does is speedrun burnout."- MoonarLune.
Not meeting compliancy standards.
"Not accommodating for disabilities properly."
"I actually have a story for this."
"I’m not sure if it’s really a disability, but I am legally blind in my right eye."
"We were going to march in a parade in 7th grade."
"I was placed on the far left. "
"The reason why it was a problem is that I am blind in my right eye so I was not able to see people to my right without turning my head."
"We needed to face forward. It made it way harder to know where I needed to be."
"I tried talking to the band teacher about placing me on the right but he didn’t listen and kept me there despite my concerns."
"It made things a lot harder than it needed to be."- The_Fluffy_Riachu.
Children are often given little autonomy or rights when it comes to taking control of a situation.
During the pandemic, some parents are practicing giving their kids more "choices with limits" to bring about well-being for their kids.
Ultimately, the lesson here might be to believe our youth when they feel something isn't right.
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