We tried personally evaluating people for loans on their individual merits, and shocker, there was rampant racism and sexism. Having strict metrics, instead of relying on the whims of a dickwad loan agent, is a good thing.

The new system isn't perfect, and yeah, it completely favors people who have parents who know how the system works. But at least it's not explicitly racist or sexist (again, there are of course systemic issues that feed into it).

I get that it's frustrating to, for example, need to have debt in order to qualify for more debt. But in other contexts this is pretty standard

it's essentially "financial experience."

But yeah. It sucks that you should pay expenses with a credit card rather than debit in the USA. Personally it doesn't matter to me (I pay them off every month), but it sucks for merchants who get stuck with the credit card transaction fees.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 7 points 7 months ago

The rise of check cards and normalizing paying for everything on plastic was a big tipping point. There's even a Monopoly game that uses electronic cards these days. It lets activity tracking run rampant and of course the banks get to skim a fee off everything.

Franky I see it as having nothing to do with fiscal responsibility (can't overspend the cash on hand) and more just a way to funnel more to those with means than anything. It's funny how cash advances on cards charge a higher rate than purchases despite neither offering a security interest to the card issuer.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

You can live without a credit score, even get a mortgage. It's not exactly easy, but it's not that difficult. Once you have a mortgage, you have a good credit score.