China's Peer-To-Peer Lenders Are Falling Like Dominoes as Panic Spreads

Re:China's Peer-To-Peer Lenders Are Falling Like Dominoes as... by taurath on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @08:21PM (#17668273)

I wish we, as a society (being the US) could agree on what is intolerable. It feels like a near majority is cynical that actually helping anyone will improve their lot, and that the only thing that works is a stick.

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Re:China's Peer-To-Peer Lenders Are Falling Like Dominoes as... by kodablah on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @09:15PM (#17668527)

> It feels like a near majority is cynical that actually helping anyone will improve their lot, and that the only thing that works is a stick.

I think it feels that way to those who think they know what helps and what doesn't. To me, it feels like a vast majority agree helping is good, but are cynical about the method and helpers. I think we can all agree that repeated failures and not learning from them is intolerable.

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Re:China's Peer-To-Peer Lenders Are Falling Like Dominoes as... by taurath on Friday August 03, 2018 @12:34AM (#17677300)

I'd agree with that - I appreciate the added granularity. I wonder sometimes, what if the problem is because we so disagree on the methods we can't get anything done, when either full bore one way or full bore the other would be a better outcome?

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Re:China's Peer-To-Peer Lenders Are Falling Like Dominoes as... by emodendroket on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @08:34PM (#17668341)

Yeah, I'm not even sure we can agree on the child labor one anymore.

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