Re:App lets banks lock your financed phone if you default on...
by bsder on Sunday November 08, 2020 @04:40PM
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> Most Americans are just brained spendathon morons with money. Look at the money people donate to streamers!
I don't agree with this statement.
What you and I see are those with the means to do this. I knew quite a few techie types who used to spend fairly enormous amounts on strippers.
However, the system itself is rigged against those who are barely scraping by. Here's my anecdote from the system:
I had a car seized over a single $44 parking ticket (parked longer than 3 days at the commuter train station terminal--which you can exceed by being a couple hours late after the weekend). Once it was towed (instant $200 fee tacked on) and in storage for a couple days, the fees were worth more than the car!
And they auctioned the car before the time to contest the ticket had even expired. I would have had to cough up several hundred dollars that I would not get back just to contest the ticket. "Innocent until proven broke."
If your institutional superiors yank your slave chain and you have the temerity to not show up immediately and say "Yes, massah!"--you will get the whip.
As someone in tech, this was just stupidly annoying and I'm probably going to save money--my insurance went down by almost the value of the car.
However, they swept almost thirty cars with mine. And were laughing about it.
At least one (I would actually estimate probably about half) of those belongs to someone who can't afford to lose that car but can't afford to get it back now that its been towed.
I can absorb losing a 25 year old car. Most people driving one cannot.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
I don't agree with this statement.
What you and I see are those with the means to do this. I knew quite a few techie types who used to spend fairly enormous amounts on strippers.
However, the system itself is rigged against those who are barely scraping by. Here's my anecdote from the system:
I had a car seized over a single $44 parking ticket (parked longer than 3 days at the commuter train station terminal--which you can exceed by being a couple hours late after the weekend). Once it was towed (instant $200 fee tacked on) and in storage for a couple days, the fees were worth more than the car!
And they auctioned the car before the time to contest the ticket had even expired. I would have had to cough up several hundred dollars that I would not get back just to contest the ticket. "Innocent until proven broke."
If your institutional superiors yank your slave chain and you have the temerity to not show up immediately and say "Yes, massah!"--you will get the whip.
As someone in tech, this was just stupidly annoying and I'm probably going to save money--my insurance went down by almost the value of the car.
However, they swept almost thirty cars with mine. And were laughing about it.
At least one (I would actually estimate probably about half) of those belongs to someone who can't afford to lose that car but can't afford to get it back now that its been towed.
I can absorb losing a 25 year old car. Most people driving one cannot.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."