• yarr@feddit.nl
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      9 hours ago

      This works great up until the point where a collection agency comes for your property and/or credit rating. I’m not saying don’t strike, but do it with full knowledge there may be repercussions.

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      23 hours ago

      It’s most likely that people won’t have a choice. Many people, anyway, from what I understand of USian wages and cost of living.

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          14 hours ago

          Lower cost of living areas pay lower wages though, so unless you remote work a high paying job or commute, the numbers are lower but the ratios are the same.

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            9 hours ago

            No, that’s not necessarily true at all. Nor is the concept unique to America. Plenty of smaller cities that aren’t NY, LA, etc. I live in one.

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        I’m not talking about rent, I’m talking about the massive credit card and loan debt that has propped up millions of folks trying to live a lifestyle they can’t really afford. In the US, it’s incredibly common for folks to just take on debt for stupid shit, like a jacked up truck they only ever use to drive to the grocery store.

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          11 hours ago

          Groceries.

          The debt is for groceries.

          Super wealthy people portray it like you just did, but what you said isn’t accurate.

          People are putting basic necessities on credit cards now.

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          14 hours ago

          I haven’t mentioned rent, I’ve mentioned cost of living …which includes rent, as well as shopping bills, gas and electric, car payments, clothes, holidays.

          My point was the people not be able to pay credit card debt.

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          15 hours ago

          this is the 6th time in the past 2 days i see this argument. blaming the people for using the system that has been forced on us over the past 20 years to bolster GDP.

          i smell an attempted narrative change.

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            10 hours ago

            Nobody is forcing you to get a credit card. It’s the stupid american culture that is making you do that. The amount of people who solely use all their income on nothing but food and rent are nowhere near as many as the people who use it to live beyond their means and pay for their overconsumption.

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            10 hours ago

            For that dept you could just move to a non fucked up country and get citizenship there.

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              Ah shit it’s so simple to relocate. Just sell everything you own, cut ties with everyone you know, and move to a country that just offers citizenship to anyone that asks.

              I don’t know why everyone hasn’t done that already.