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It's rather remarkable how able people are to tolerate a borderline existence until a concrete metaphor for its inevitability and hopelessness - like an unpayab
by bryne 16y ago
It's rather remarkable how able people are to tolerate a borderline existence until a concrete metaphor for its inevitability and hopelessness - like an unpayable loan - is thrust into their faces.
- srean 16y agoThere's more to the suicides than microcredit. I commented on some here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2055046 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2055046
- richcollins 16y agoHow do you know that they wouldn't have killed themselves earlier if the loan didn't provide them some hope of success. Would his business have survived if he didn't take the loan?