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Re:Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah by human20190310 on Friday September 20, 2019 @01:39PM (#21029263)
> The rest of the capital to fund development

The article mentions "...high rates of borrowing on weekend nights as evidence that loans are marketed and taken in moments of inebriated revelry."

Assuming that's true, and considering all the data these fintech operations are collecting, surely they can't believe they're funding development rather than consumption.

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Re:Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah by wutbrodo on Friday September 20, 2019 @03:46PM (#21030479)
> high rates of borrowing on weekend nights as evidence that loans are marketed and taken in moments of inebriated revelry."

Is it evidence that they're marketed as such?

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Re:Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah by vageli on Friday September 20, 2019 @05:54PM (#21031707)
Is it really unusual to start a business after the hours of your usual occupation? Where is the correlation with inebriation?
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