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To some, debt is a hit to one's freedom, dignity, and privacy. Most debt requires you to give a lot of personal information, tell a bank what you are buying, a
by jeffdavis 10y ago
To some, debt is a hit to one's freedom, dignity, and privacy.
Most debt requires you to give a lot of personal information, tell a bank what you are buying, and then stick to a fairly arbitrary payment plan with various penlties for non-compliance.
So it's perfectly sensible to minimize your debt for non-financial reasons.
- usaphp 10y agobuying a house, car, going to school, university, having a baby also requires you to give a lot of personal information, it does not mean its a reason not to use those things...
- hueving 10y ago>it does not mean its a reason not to use those things... It is for people really sensitive to privacy that are distrustful of institutions.
- pc86 10y agoNot having a baby because of the privacy implications is not a choice a mentally well person makes.
- hueving 10y agoThere is a non-trivial portion of the home birth movement that does it because of distrust of institutionalized medicine.
- usaphp 10y agoDoes it mean their baby will live without paperwork and no health insurance?
- hueving 10y agoYes. Some have even made the argument that this makes voter identification requirements racist (due to the higher home birth participation of African Americans).
- tptacek 10y agoThis would of course be one of many factors that would make voter identification requirements racially biased; far lower rates of possessing compliant ID would be the more important factor.