alt Hacker NewsNeither had I, until the last few years when everybody decided to abandon all obligation to uphold their end of every contract because they thought they could get away with it.
In the last year alone I've sued my HOA, employer, and fired off a litany of demands for a cumulative total of 10x that amount.
This is the truth! I've had to do more credit card chargebacks and chase down more companies that owed me money or otherwise failed to live up to their side of a transaction, in the past 24 months than the total of the past 24 years. I think companies have realized that the current regulatory environment allows them to simply do whatever they want, commit fraud, take people's money and disappear, fail to provide service, and they know the onus is on the already tired and busy Average Joe to hold them all accountable. There is no more government willingness to go after companies anymore.