• ABCDE@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s not mentioned in the article, and not how I’ve been able to pay my rent, always bank transfer or cash.

    The US has an issue with credit cards, this is nothing new. Too many feel they deserve stuff before they can afford it. I’m not talking about the sickness is the US medical “system”.

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      1 year ago

      Why do you think people use a credit card to buy nice things they don’t need, per se?
      Something like 62% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. It’s not that people “feel they deserve stuff before they can afford it”, it’s that in our current economic system, prices are going up and wages are staying low. Productivity is going up, but compensation is not keeping up with prices or productivity. People can at least dream of being able to pay off a credit card that they used to buy a new TV or maybe a new car, but something bigger like a house, or comfortably affording children, is off the table because of how expensive everything is right now.
      But let’s be totally honest, people get into debt to do things like pay rent, or on car repairs, or hospital bills, or vet bills, etc. etc.

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        1 year ago

        Also, people are allowed to have nice things they don’t need. They should have nice things they don’t need. This idea that, unless you’re well-off, you should only buy the bare necessities is bullshit. Comfort is necessary for basic mental health. You’re not an idiot who can’t take care of their money because you dare to buy a PS5 and a big TV. You just want to squeeze a tiny bit of pleasure out of this miserable existence.