Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money?

• plz1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  US credit score won’t get you sent to jail or a re-education camp, at least. At least, not yet.

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  • Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It will condem you to poverty tho

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  • Powerpoint@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It can impact everything in your life, even jobs and housing now. It’s practically the same thing except instead of being forced to live in a camp you’re living on the street.

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    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And if you dare get together with other people that are forced onto the street and make a camp together somewhere isolated, the government tears it down and evicts you and destroys your things. Thank god for our freedom.

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• Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My favorite part is when one of the three companies that does ours leaked all of our data with relatively no consequences.

  www.ftc.gov/…/equifax-data-breach-settlement

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• Arbiter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well if it’s the free market abusing us it’s okay. That’s just freedom.

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• hamsammy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean it’s not like your credit score immediately gets affected for something like jaywalking though.

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  • Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not sure that’s entirely the bar we should be aiming for

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• misanthropy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It can even impact being hired for jobs. Low credit score? You might be untrustworthy or motivated to steal

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• Gigan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s not comparable at all. In the US your credit score only goes down if you borrow money and don’t pay it back. If you get a loan and pay it back on time your credit score will be fine.

  I’m not super familiar with the Chinese credit system, but I think it’s effected by a lot more. What kind of products you buy, how much you work, posting certain content online, etc.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes these systems are not in any way whatsoever comparable to each other except in being reputation rating systems.

    “What? A bank wants to know if you defaulted on the last loan you took? What is this?? Totalitarian China???”

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