Re:Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B
by wonnage on Sunday August 01, 2021 @08:58PM
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It's rather paternalistic to assume poor people can't handle credit.
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Re:Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B
by phist_mcgee on Sunday August 01, 2021 @09:50PM
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Are you kidding? Poor people of course cannot handle credit, because they don't have the cashflow or savings to prevent the use of credit in disadvantageous situations. I am not saying poor people shouldn't have credit, I am saying credit is most destructive for poorer people, and so any service that targets that market is exploitative of their misfortune.
> Poor people of course cannot handle credit
That starts you down a very slippery slope of what other things poor people supposedly can't handle, because of course you know what's best for them.
Re:Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B
by jokethrowaway on Sunday August 01, 2021 @09:03PM
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They would definitely be less poor if they could