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Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by dataflow on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:12PM (#29657151)
Sure, that's the problem. The question is how do you solve it. Ideally you implement a different solution before removing the existing workaround.
Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by obstacle1 on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:55PM (#29657469)
Pretty much every first-world country other than the USA has at least partially solved it. Social safety nets, regulation of utilities/public goods (education for example), and a guaranteed standard of living.
Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by coliveira on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @09:50PM (#29658112)
But then, how predatory bankers will survive? Some country needs to protect them...
Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by pishpash on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:15PM (#29657168)
If there is an existing workaround no one will look for a different solution.
Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by dataflow on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:18PM (#29657189)
I don't think that's true. And I don't think wrecking some people's lives just as an incentive for others to look for solutions is easy to justify.
Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by emodendroket on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @08:16PM (#29657612)
On this theory, they shut down mental health institutions. Now what happens is mostly that jails serve as ill-suited, ad-hoc mental health institutions. Turns out making things worse without having a plan doesn't always have salutary results.