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A comment on The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Neighborhoods. Parent comment

Re:The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Nei... by mikeash on Saturday November 28, 2015 @09:02PM (#10643427)
You tell a story about how you encountered debt collectors using you to look for someone else, then immediately say the easy way to avoid them is not to get into debt? Do you not see the obvious contradiction here?
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Re:The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Nei... by ingsoc79 on Saturday November 28, 2015 @11:08PM (#10643669)
That I shouldn't post about debt on the Internet until I've purged all association with people in debt? Help me out here.
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Re:The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Nei... by jimrandomh on Saturday November 28, 2015 @11:17PM (#10643689)
Many of the complaints against debt collection practices are coming from people who aren't debtors, but are being harrassed because they have a phone number that's changed hands or have been misidentified. That's not something one can avoid by not buying things, and for people who've been the victim of this sort of harrassment, it's a big deal and a reason to hate the industry.
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Re:The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Nei... by mikeash on Saturday November 28, 2015 @11:16PM (#10643686)
No, that from your own story, avoiding debt doesn't necessarily mean you avoid debt collectors.
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