I am frustrated with the way things work in the world. Or at least my world. Frustration is a reaction to something you cannot immediately change but think should be changed.
Example: The other day my former roommate and I went to our landlord's office in order to remove my name from the lease and add the incoming roommate. The process involved 3 people signing a pre-existing document, and then putting it back in the filing cabinet. Simple enough. However, the rental company wished to charge us a $100 "subleasing fee." I cannot figure out how to justify such a gross charge for such a simple task other than complete and and utter greed.
Lets figure it this way. Say the woman working behind the desk is paid 20 dollars an hour. The process of us coming in and signing these papers took about 10 minutes, at this rate and time it cost the company about $3 to pay the woman for her labor. I also imagine the company like to make profit, so I could understand maybe charging us an extra $10, maybe even rounding it to a total of $15, but $100? How in any way is that justified? It's greed, straight up greed, and they can get away with it because they own half of the rental property in the city, and we have no other choice.
This is frustrating. See what I mean? It shouldn't work that way, but it does, and there's nothing I can do about it. Frustrating.
(Luckily my former roommate is an extremely kind individual and it covering the costs)
I can however, already sense an opposing argument arising. We live in a capitalist country. The company has the right to charge whatever they want for any service, and if they can get people to pay their price, more power to them. Right?
No, I disagree. When I think of a business being successful I do not think of how much money they have. I do not believe a business should strive to have the largest profits as possible but to create the best product possible while still making a profit, and then, with that profit turning it back around to innovate and improve their product, or possibly create an entirely new product. The idea of business is not to accumulate funds but to successfully provide products that aid human life. It is to succeed in a venture, succeed further in it, and then choose another venture to succeed in. That is a business. Greed is Bad. Read Atlas Shrugged or something.
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