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Kettle Thought #14: Idiot-Tax

Kettle Thought of the day:

Drink: Darjeeling Tea

There are certain things that I just can’t wrap my head around. Things that are so blatantly stupid or illogical that they must have been created simply for the hell of it. Somewhere out there, in the sands of industry, pale, bearded men hunch over desks, coming up with ingenious schemes to charge someone money for something they don’t need; a sort of ‘idiot-tax’, with them, the Idiot Inland Revenue. You could argue that much of what we have today is completely unnecessary (we’ve survived and evolved for millennia without iPads), but I’ve identified a few choice examples of products with particularly excessive idiot-tax rates.  

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