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Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that?

I’m just a regular person making about $70K a year in a big city, and I’ve recently felt incredibly powerless dealing with private companies. For instance, my landlord’s auto-pay system had a glitch that excluded my pet rent and water bill. I ended up with over $1,000 in late fees. Despite hours on the phone, it turns out their system doesn’t really do auto-pay and requires a fixed amount instead of covering the full rent. It feels like a scam, and my options are to pay the fees or potentially spend a fortune on legal action.

Another frustrating experience was trying to cancel my pest control service. I had to endure a 40-minute call followed by 35 minutes of arguing, just to finally cancel. There’s no online cancellation option, and the process felt like a timeshare sales pitch.

Why do ordinary people seem so unprotected against these shady practices, and how can we change this? How does one person even start to address these issues?

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The entire justice system rests on how much money you have.

It’s capitalism, capitalism is the core of the problem.

It treats people who have wealth as good people who always have a chance to appeal injustice and people without wealth as never having an opportunity to fight injustice.

You would literally need to tear it all down and start over because the US Consitution is kind of a piece of garbage and we spend way too much time jerking off the old dead white slave-owners who wrote down that “All men are created equal… as long as they’re white and own land.”

In some more civilized countries, they do things like peg criminal fines to the wealth of the person who committed the crime? Poor person? Small fine. Rich person? Huge fine. It’s decided based on a percentage of their wealth. So the wealthier criminals literally pay more because of their financial influence.

AndrewZabar ,

I guess they don’t have their wealthy running the government and writing the laws.

kittenzrulz123 ,

Most countries have Capitalism but few suffer as badly as post-Regan America (except maybe post-Thatcher UK).

capital_sniff ,

Corporations tried out binding arbitration and the people just took it with very little complaining. So why not keep eroding consumer protections or the other rights citizens fought for in the before times?

fiend_unpleasant ,

everytime I start telling people how to make guillotines everyone gets upset and says that they really didn't solutions they meant.. like... bandaids

RobotToaster ,
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz avatar

Have you seen the price of timber these days?

Linktank ,

People don’t fear for their lives when they fuck people over any more. We need to bring that back somehow. Ratfuckers should be fearful after they ratfuck somebody that they’re going to get theirs.

Sabre363 ,

It’s just corporations and rich assholes running the show and they absolutely do not give a fuck about anyone but themselves, especially if the anyone is poor ordinary. The only way to solve the issue is to completely remove these entities from the equation and start making our own protections.

ALostInquirer ,

Have you seen the !politicaldiscussion community? This would be a good post there as well, I think!

partial_accumen ,

a glitch that excluded my pet rent and water bill. I ended up with over $1,000 in late fees. Despite hours on the phone, it turns out their system doesn’t really do auto-pay and requires a fixed amount instead of covering the full rent

You got over $1000 in late fees from a single month of not having the full amount?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA ,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

Blood

GBU_28 ,

It can be very cheap to get a letter written by a lawyer on their letterhead, to demand things like service cancellation.

It’s not perfect and shouldn’t have to happen, but what’s your time and mental health worth?

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