• Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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    9 months ago

    “people are too poor to afford to eat, come observe as we try and reframe this as a quirky habit of a younger generation instead of hilighting the fracturing of society as a whole!”

    she suffers with a smile

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      9 months ago

      Yes, I definitely volunteered to get an interest free loan on my groceries. It absolutely had nothing to do with my inability to pay in full immediately

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        9 months ago

        From a purely mathematical perspective, if you are a perfectly rational consumer you would put everything on an interest-free buy-now-pay-later plan and then squirrel the money into a high-yield savings account, then pocket the interest.

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          9 months ago

          That’s actually what I do lol. Unfortunately, I live paycheck to paycheck, so it only makes me around $10/month, but hey, it’s something.

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              9 months ago

              $5-10. I have no idea how they calculate average balance for the month, but the good news is that I’m very, very slow saving money.

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      9 months ago

      But listen to our fun jingle!

      Isn’t is nifty to get into debt before your brain has fully developed!