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[–] RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Everyone’s like “Better than getting denied a loan for an arbitrary reason”, but we’re addicted to debt.

Private loans being exceptionally hard to obtain would drive down prices and hopefully promote individual austerity (setting aside discrimination and bigotry).

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Private loans make the fairness problem worse.

Loans only go to the “right kind of people” with connections.

Without the ability to get loans for housing, it’s a landlord’s paradise.