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Re:Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millio... by munk-a on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:51PM (#20579877)
Not being the worst is not the same as succeeding.

Following that logic the Burj Khalifa is a space elevator because no one has been able to build a better space elevator than that.

I have general objections to this sort of underwriting assessment being an ethical business for a private organization to begin with due to the immense amount of possibility for discrimination it opens up.

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Re:Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millio... by harryh on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:00PM (#20579940)
On the contrary, the modern credit scoring system has been a huge success when it comes to fighting discrimination. Previously banks left underwriting decisions to the whims of individual bankers. Unsurprisingly, many of these whims were based on things like the color of an applicants skin.

While there are certainly some arguments to be made about disparate impact under our current system basically everyone agrees that access to credit for minorities is much much better than it used to be.

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