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If a bank is making loans at rates that do not cover defaults they should go out of business because they are crappy at their job. If I take my car to a mechan
by foobarrio 9y ago
If a bank is making loans at rates that do not cover defaults they should go out of business because they are crappy at their job.
If I take my car to a mechanic am I expected to know as much about my car as the mechanic? Do I tear down and redo/inspect any work they do to my car? If I go to a mechanic and ask them if it's okay to do something dangerous to my car and they go ahead and do it, I'd say the mechanic is way more on the hook morally than the idiot driver.
Similarly if I go and ask for a 1,000,000 USD mortgage when I'm only making $20,000 USD a year and have no savings or investments and the bank gives it me... You're saying both me and bank are on equal moral footing? You would then have to ask what incentive the bank had to give me the money. Either they are greedy and wanted to charge a super high rate or they intended to pass the buck and sell the loan which can be fraud if they lie about my credit worthiness to the next buyer of the loan.
- ericd 9y agoI would say that your asking for a $1M USD mortgage with a $20k income would be reckless at best, and dishonest at worst. Yes, they're also at fault, but you're not blameless in that case. You have a personal and societal responsibility to spend within your means. To do otherwise causes damage to the rest of us.