I thought I was being advertised to on Lemmy despite my various ad blockers and was furious for about 10 seconds lmao
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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Ewwww! So glad I had somewhere else to go after dumping that place!
This will be the new normal if we don't stop Capitalism now.
A world where you own nothing, and are expected to survive based solely on a debt that you are expected to pay back but it's an open secret that you never will.
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Did... did they just reinvent credit cards from first principles? Just without the card?
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remember the pay over time pizza thing?
That's something that literally exists all over the civilized world were credit cards are used.
You can pay your credit card debt in installments or portions/quotes
It's not an earth shattering news
yeah but it was a specific program from like dominoes or something. it was pretty effed up. all the same did not seem to take off so maybe they just wanted to propose something stupid for free advertising.
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Gotta keep the wage slaves in debt so there's no upward mobility.
I wonder how they interact with regulations of the payday loan industry.
Is that woman crying?
She's laughing to keep from crying.
No.
Yeah. Probably, she read the terms and conditions.
Rookie mistake. If you wouldn’t read a company’s legal teams’ diaries, you shouldn’t read their T&C (same thing)
So now they're getting free organic marketing by being a shitty ad? Reacting the brand would be better.
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i think you mean $100 of beans
Sorry no beans, just debt. And an agreement to terms and conditions that you must not poop for 72 hours.
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So glad I don’t use Reddit
I'm immediately wary of anything involving credit that I didn't seriously consider or plan for. I can't imagine going into debt because I'd rather drink coffee at Starbucks than at home.
Sadly, with the lack of financial education, many people do not correctly assess their salary/expenses vs their real/perceived expense class
Basically a lot of people are shitting way higher than their ass will allow them
These are the kind of people targeted by these ads
And it's all good in my books. If you are so DESPERATE for approval that you need to take in loans to keep up appearances, then good for you but don't complain about the consequences.
No one forced you except your own inferiority complexes
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I'm the same way and I just had to sign up for a credit card specifically for vet bills because my dog needs emergency surgery. The vet told me the specific card isn't super predatory or whatever, but I didn't really have any time to think things over. I just want my dog better, and I know that I can't afford it on my own rn.
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Do you mean wary or does it make you tired?
Woops, yes.