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Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by bitcharmer on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @10:27PM (#29658336)
You hit the nail on the head.

It's terrifying how many Americans on this thread defend this despicable system as something normal and expected.

Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by ransom1538 on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @11:30PM (#29658670)
This isn't America. Here is season 6 ep01 of an ENTIRE reality show series in England collecting money from people not paying debts [many of them payday loans]. In England they just walk into your home and start taking things. In Dubai they put debtors in prison. Isreal is covered in payday loans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6yBiasqMnM

https://www.detainedindubai.org/post/the-truth-about-leaving...

https://www.jpost.com/special-content/the-fall-of-payday-loa...

Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by bitcharmer on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @11:54PM (#29658787)
Crippling student loans or medical bankruptcy does not exist in UK or any other European country, so that's a pretty bad comparison.

I was not referring to just payday loans.

Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by kortilla on Thursday December 23, 2021 @05:16AM (#29660425)
It’s terrifying how many Europeans come out and defend payday loans and pretend their system where it’s more difficult to declare bankruptcy is somehow better than the US debt system.
Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by bitcharmer on Thursday December 23, 2021 @05:39AM (#29660549)
Where did you see Europeans defending payday loans?
Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by horns4lyfe on Saturday December 25, 2021 @10:49AM (#29684198)
It’s terrifying that people in this thread think economies built on debt and usury is a uniquely American system. These types of posts are basically just turning into reddit