There’s a reason businesses want RFID chips and information on their customers.
Some of the most ‘respectable’ people are actually scumbags or have been brainwashed to feel entitled to ‘rig’ the system in their favor.
It’s really a mixed bag of things. There are patently dishonest people who “game” the whole thing and they disgust me. There are people who get a defective product right out of the box and the manufacturer expects them to wait 7-10 days for a replacement part. Often they’ve hired someone to install it who can’t do their job until the part arrives. Often, the part required does not call for the whole fixture (a kitchen faucet to be removed and reinstalled, for example) to be replaced. Why should the installer do the work and why should the homeowner pay to have that extra work done because the manufacturer sent out a defective product? So the homeowner just buys another one just like it, the required part is swapped out and the thing is returned. Often, I’ve had to go back to a person’s house the next day to finish a job that would have been complete but for a defective faucet. Naturally, nobody wants to pay me for that. In that respect, “corporatists” have only themselves to blame.
It’s really a mixed bag of things. There are patently dishonest people who “game” the whole thing and they disgust me. There are people who get a defective product right out of the box and the manufacturer expects them to wait 7-10 days for a replacement part. Often they’ve hired someone to install it who can’t do their job until the part arrives. Often, the part required does not call for the whole fixture (a kitchen faucet to be removed and reinstalled, for example) to be replaced. Why should the installer do the work and why should the homeowner pay to have that extra work done because the manufacturer sent out a defective product? So the homeowner just buys another one just like it, the required part is swapped out and the thing is returned. Often, I’ve had to go back to a person’s house the next day to finish a job that would have been complete but for a defective faucet. Naturally, nobody wants to pay me for that. In that respect, “corporatists” have only themselves to blame.