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> It’s sprung when you’ve lost your job, are vulnerable and are about to become homeless. I mean, I think you can call this a trap, or you can call it a life r
by darawk 5y ago
> It’s sprung when you’ve lost your job, are vulnerable and are about to become homeless.
I mean, I think you can call this a trap, or you can call it a life raft. If you take away the option of debt, the option that remains is homelessness. I'm not really sure its fair to call that a trap.
If there is a trap there, it's the fact that the person was in a position to become homeless in the first place. Not that some lender offered them a temporary respite.
- neuronic 5y agoIf the option to debt is homelessness maybe think about that system for a second as opposed to what society is capable of providing if you let it. Predatory corporations rule America today so the Jurassic Park comparison is quite apt. There is very solid middle ground in a social market economy. We built societies as a construct to support the people living in them, but America is all about competition and individuals. There is barely any sense of community left unless media frames it like a sports event (team blue vs. team red or whatever).