Americans freaking out about China seems like cognitive dissonance to me. In the US, your ability to do *almost anything* is based on a score of your ability to both amass and pay off debt. It’s become so engrained in culture that this seems perfectly normal....
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Replying to @rivatez
it’s reasonable i should know if you’re likely to pay me back before i lend you money, it’s unreasonable for me to know you’re an asshole (or, let’s be real, critic of the government) before i lend you money
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Replying to @micsolana
but you’re missing the first step here which is that you *have* to borrow money in the first place in order to be able to do anything... and some of those things don’t include borrowing money.
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are we talking about rent etc.? idk seems normal to be suspicious of 18-yr olds with no history of making regular payments, and easy enough to build a history here after finding a co-sign. i agree it’s a problem, but it’s also not literally an episode of black mirror.
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