Good work, if you can get it

Here's a great article at Cracked.com: "6 Companies that Make Money Solving Problems (They Made Up)."

They say that sex sells, but when it comes to sales techniques, sex has nothing on fear. Huge swaths of our economy operate entirely on scaring people into giving up their money. And the worst part? A lot of the time their product is worthless.

Check it out. It's funny, but quite true. These are companies making money from people's gullibility. Disappointingly, there are no homeopaths or herbal supplement companies mentioned, though.

Of course, right-wing politicians have discovered that fear sells, too. They've done quite well politically by scaring gullible people into voting for them, and often enough they've just made up the problem (otherwise, they've hugely exaggerated it).