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A comment on A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millions of Borrowers. Parent comment

Re:A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millio... by humaniania on Sunday December 08, 2019 @06:18PM (#21739156)
I think that it is interesting how from a fishing perspective a lure is also a trap in one sense.
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Re:A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millio... by TomMarius on Sunday December 08, 2019 @06:21PM (#21739172)
Is it? A lure is what gets you to the trap, as I understand it (not a native speaker so I might be bringing that over from my native language)
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Re:A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millio... by austhrow743 on Sunday December 08, 2019 @07:39PM (#21739576)
A lure is a fake fish/bug/food with hooks on it.

It's designed to make fish want to bite it and then the hooks dig in to them. Trapping them.

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