Building a nation of indentured servants.
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"first they came for the brown dudes and I didn't say anything because I wasn't a slave. Yet."
I wonder what would happen if people did a “debt strike”. If everybody stopped paying their debts at the same time, the credit card company’s wouldn’t be able to afford to punish everybody. They going to repossess 100k cars and houses etc?
The government would cover the credit card company's debts while going after one consumer at a time. Then moderates would celebrate a great victory when the credit card company paid the government back, see, everything worked out!
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"This kidney transplant is available to you at a low, low price of $2999.99/month.
Subject to repossession if you miss any payments!"
Repo! The Genetic Opera vibes right there. Also topical because Anthony head just died
This was a good sci-fi movie at release, never knew it would be predicting the future on some level.
The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan. Clients who miss payments are hunted down by Repo Men, skilled assassins who "repossess" the organs
The movie Repo Men from 2010 immediately jumps to mind.
"Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed."
For how many months?
Insurance company: All of them
It's not a payment plan, it's a leasing contract.
But have you seen the Dow?!!!?
Oh yeah, it's slavery time
Oh no, no, these aren't slaves. These are warehouse atholeets.
No idea if you're joking or not, because UPS legitimately refers to their warehouse personnel as "industrial athletes."
Truly the darkest timeline.
They want us to die penniless. They really hate it when their workers in their 40s and 50s start getting inheritances, and either stop working so hard, or retire early, or worse, go into competition against them.
Kill middle class inheritances, and you create a segment of older workers who are increasingly desperate to keep their jobs and especially their health care. That's a segment that you can ruthlessly exploit, and discard after you've used them up. Everybody hates older workers.
The propaganda worked. The only ways we're allowed to save are by investing in the companies that exploit us. This makes compliant workers who support the exploitation on which they're forced to depend.
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Honestly, if I reach senior citizen age and things get untenably difficult, I'm just going to go around lighting shit on fire. I'll have zero fucks left to give and would rather watch it all burn.
Put me in prison. I'll be old and other inmates won't bother with me and I'll get 3 meals and endless books to read.
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My co-pay per psych visit is $200. They originally wanted me to have a visit every month.
When I told their office that I can’t afford to pay that much each month, they told me, “We have installment plans.”
I responded, “So I can’t afford paying this amount, but you want me to still come here once a month, and your solution is monthly installment plans? … You see how that doesn’t help at all, right?”
No response.
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Anyway, if I seem cranky in the near-future, it’s because I stopped going to that doctor and thus my stock of anti-depressant and anti-anxiety meds is running out. I’ll need to carefully taper myself down to avoid catastrophic consequences. It took an absurd amount of searching to even find a doctor accepting new patients in the first place, and I don’t want to have to go through all that just to wind up with more unaffordable bills. I don’t know what else to fucking do.
Is a telehealth appointment an option? In my experience those are less expensive and easier, especially if you just need refills. Some meds need to be prescribed in-person however.
Before I hit the first tier of my plan's deductible, I was paying $150/session, and I only do telehealth.
Health insurance in this country is fucking awful.
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If they have their way children will be born into debt and forced to "earn" their way up to $0.00.
It's parasite games.
Technically American newborns are charged for their own birth under their parent's insurance. Their account for billing insurance is created before their birth certificate.
That's fucking disgusting, what the fuck. How are Americans not rioting every day of the year?
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You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
The year is 2126. I have finished my Doctorate degree to make me eligible for an entry level data entry job at one of the 4 mega corps. For my student loans I owe my school 4 years of life. During my time in school I got cancer from the PFAS plant I was forced to live next to. Cured in one pill (oh the wonders of modern medicine!) But now I owe the pharmaceutical company 4 years of my life.
The pharmaceutical company and my university are now in a legal match to determine who gets the first 4 years (younger and more productive). They settle. I owe an additional 2 years now for the legal costs that are passed down to me.
Meanwhile, people in Europe are taking their mandated 6 months of vacation. Fucking communists. Do they even think of the shareholders??
No way they would make cure in one pill. It would be a subscription.
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Now all we need to do is legally transfer debt to offspring. Then my great-great-great-great grandson has to pay off that stupid muscle car I bought.
That's coming. They aren't going to allow the Death Loophole to continue for real people. That sort of stuff is only for the Epstein Class.
Indentured servitude with extra steps.
Turning the nation into one big company town/store.
Can't wait to be paid in scrip that's only redeemable at subsidiaries of the multinational corp. I work for.
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i'm beginning to think france did the colonies no favors by providing crucial aid and support in their war for 'freedom' two and a half centuries ago.
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Next: Repackage the BNPL loans into debt based instruments used by investors.
Then: The entire economy crashes and we given Elon Musk control over our financial system.
Eventually: We go extinct like we deserve.
But for a brief moment, the shareholders made a fortune.
Calling out a trillionaire on his own platform is stupid as fuck. Downvote twitter/x posts.
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We have been going on this line for 40 years. Credit cards used to be rare you limits were low. Houses were bought on 10-15 ye loans. Car loans were 3 yrs. College loans were crazy hard to get.
That isn't a new thing, America is addicted to debt, and has been for a few decades.
My parents had a house with a 30 year loan in the 80's... at 16%. That said, it was also only like $25k.
Credit cards in the 90's had low limits but people would just get a bunch of them. I remember hearing the average person had 14.1 cards in the late 90's.
This has been going on forever. I feel like it's an integral part of American society since at least the 50's. Deregulation has increased the speed, the disconnect between wage growth and inflation/buying power, etc.
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Okay, hear me out - childbirth, but it's in US, therefore it costs 250'000 and since the baby can't pay it, then everyone in US is born with a 250k debt. Republicans, contact me for idea copyrights
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"The debt will serve both to enrich us, and to keep them compliant"
Black mirror did an episode about this sort of thing. It was very dark
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How about we evaluate why these things cost so much? Maybe if we idk, actually allow people the medical care they need instead of criminalizing them and gouging them maybe people would actually consider this country becoming a favorable place to live.
Whatever though people are choosing to have less and less children so ** when we die in debt an we have millions of dollars in debt due to probably a 8% apr, the government can go fuck itself looking for that debt collection because we're not gonna have any family to pay those people back. Given that most people's next of kin is responsible for their debt if they die.**
So yeah, I mean push people to thier limits and force us all into debt and then wonder why no one wants to procreate and yeah like anyone wants that 8%apr payment plan for crapping out an offspring that they so desperatly want you to keep and not abort but can't afford to take care of and NOW they cut MORE Programs that help families and then go: no, no, no, there's payment plans. Which agian shows they care about, what could be and not really is. It shows they don't want to know what is going on and only use a heavily biased generalization.
Fuck outta here. I hope they all see a psychiatrist.
In the US, relatives aren't responsible for a deceased relative's debt unless they co-signed or live in Pennsylvania with certain circumstances.
Just wanted to let people know to NEVER pay debt from a deceased person unless you absolutely know you are legally responsible. They will try to hassle you and lie into getting you to pay, and just one payment can make things so much harder for you.
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Orange cancer can die. Nothing gonna change until stupid Americans stop voting like knuckle draggers.
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I will just simply not pay
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