• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    3 days ago

    Like honestly one or two stupid debts seem like they can tank the rest of your life. If predatory loans were illegal it would save a lot of people.

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      Honestly, if you’re young with no real assets then bankrupcy can be a really easy one time get out of jail free card financially speaking. If you have no big assets then all it really does is cost a bit for the lawyer and completely fuck your credit for 7 years. But if you would have been spending those 7 years spending all of your money trying to manage debt and fending off debt collectors with a stick anyways then neither of those negatives actually make things any worse for you.

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      Loans for homes not being a thing (and you instead getting an actually decent home for cheap) would go a very long way.

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        The top 10% of households by wealth held 67% of total household wealth. That’s something to fix, not ignore

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              Honestly these issues will never be addressed unless those in power are willing to accept that redistribution of wealth is a necessity at this point for society to not collapse.