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Re:Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation by et2o on Thursday April 16, 2020 @02:59PM (#22892358)
Germans tend to take on very low levels of debt (speaking broadly). There are lots of hypotheses about the psychology behind it: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-31369185
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Re:Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation by mmkhd on Thursday April 16, 2020 @05:26PM (#22893747)
I like the quit romantic explanation best, that debt in Germany has a moral component. "Debt" and "guilt" are nearly the same word, so taking on debt is a topic of moral philosophy: It's a sin ;-)
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