damnedfurry

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[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

That is one horrendous logo, lol

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

It works in that show because the entire family are losers, and they all get mocked by all the others, regularly.

True equality, lol.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Your opportunities in life are absolutely dependent on your wealth. Those hoarding wealth are stealing opportunity from everyone.

What if the wealth you possess was created by you? Wealth isn't zero sum, it's created all the time (and at a rate literally not achievable simply by underpaying employees, to pre-refute the expected response). The implied premise of 'because they have it, we don't have it' just doesn't hold any water.

Also, it doesn't really make sense to call it 'hoarding' when it's largely/all invested in businesses that run within the economy. To hoard something is to keep it isolated--investments in publicly-traded companies can never truly fairly be called "hoarding". You could only fairly call the funds kept in back accounts etc. unspent 'hoarded'.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

1 in 4 households earning over $100,000 a year live paycheck to paycheck--not because they can't make ends meet, but because their money management sucks. A high income has very little relationship with responsible borrowing, despite what many would assume.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As for your claim that “nobody” steals for their baby

Congrats on contradicting the absolute literal interpretation of what was obviously hyperbole, I guess.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

imposing a higher interest rate on them on top of that is just the final nail in the coffin.

That's the only way to justify loaning to people like that at all, given how much more often they default (and the lender never gets repaid at all). If lenders were forced to give the same interest rate to everyone, that would cause them not to lend to "A person with a low income with a precarious job" at all.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You’re discounting the people who have always lived within their means and so never took on debt.

No I'm not. Those people are unknown quantities, and so also suffer if credit scores go away, because bad borrowers are worse than first-time borrowers, so without credit scores, first-timers will be treated worse.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

And how exactly is guessing your credit worthiness based on those factors a better system than literally keeping track of what happened each previous time money was lent to you, when it comes to making a decision on lending money to you?

This is like arguing it's a better idea to select NBA players by their height, than by their performance in high school and college basketball games.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world -4 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Only people who are bad credit risks ever come up with this take, lmao.

The sole function of credit scores is to benefit people who are reliably 'good for it' when they borrow money. Without them, everyone is treated as just as high a risk as the worst borrowers who are least likely to pay back their debts, and you gain no benefit from reliably paying back your debts. But with them, your good borrowing is kept track of, and good reputation means lenders trust you more to pay your debts back, so they're willing to lend more, and they are willing to charge less interest.

Removing credit scores changes nothing for bad borrowers, and hurts good borrowers.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, this is just people not understanding how credit scores work, part #57294, lol

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This would be a scandal. It would be a news story. Please, give a link to a single time this has ever happened, because of all the things that never happened, this happened the least.

I'll do you two better. Only took 15 seconds of Googling, after all:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/baby-formula-targeted-organized-retail-theft-rings/story?id=13293485 https://www.wate.com/news/knox-county-news/three-accused-of-stealing-12000-worth-of-baby-formula-from-across-knox-county/ https://www.newsflare.com/video/635785/thieves-steal-7k-of-baby-formula-from-supermarket-in-just-20-minutes

Time to find out if you'll admit you're wrong, or if the smug ignorance continues.

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