I’m refinancing this terrible loan and the bank person grimaced when they saw this.

  • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    See, that whole entire thought process just doesn’t hold me prisoner anymore like it used to.

    If you want the capital to survive (buying a car is survival in most places) or to try and get ahead, you must pay more capital than you have. If the banks don’t make money this way, the poor and middle class will fail.

    I don’t think this is true economical theory anymore. It’s corrupted greed that’s overtaken institutionally in every facet of life including academia. It’s like saying nuclear war is the best peace keeping practice.

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      5 hours ago

      Cool how you used the quote markdown for a bunch of stuff I didn’t say.

      My argument is “The banks have a ton of capital. They are willing to grant lower classes access to that capital, as long as the bank is able to make some profit from it. If the bank cannot profit, they will just sit on that wealth and lower classes will lose the only access to such capital that they currently have.”

      Like I said, the fact that many borderline necessities in the US require access to capital beyond one’s individual means, is a real problem but separate from this argument.