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Take out a huge loan (cdn.imgchest.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Samdell@lemmy.eco.br to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
 
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[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

According to pic, it seems like anon took out 2 huge loans!

[–] Samdell@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 6 hours ago

Second thing you do after taking a huge loan. First is two chicks at the same time.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

The real question is how many people would have to do this at once to bankrupt the lenders?

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.zip 63 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

> open an llc
> take out a business loan under llc
> travel the world on a business trip
> declare llc bankrupt
> personal finances unaffected
> repeat

[–] Turious@leaf.dance 20 points 1 day ago

And I still have to be alive afterwards? Pass.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

take out a business loan under llc

You need to have a feasable business to do that part.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.zip 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not if you say you do ✨AI✨

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

TAKE MY MONEY NOW!

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wouldn't work, after this you'd love life

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Not life with crippling debt.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

As someone who has travelled and done a lot of random things in my 40 years of life:

[–] plyth@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

Did you take out a huge loan to pay for it?

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Classic life bamboozle

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i would if I could get a loan.

anyone knows a loanshark? the kind that will kill me if I don't pay back

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Even better- saves you the trouble of having to figure out that last part yourself!

[–] andMoonsValue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A gaggle of chicas

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 172 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Don't do it OP, traveling and broadening your mind might make you enjoy life and then you'd not be so nonchalant about deleting yourself. You might end up on prison, where you'll suffer doubly due to your newfound love of life and freedom! Better semi-suffer in an empty existence for the rest of your life like most others.

Or like, just stay on a foreign beach with your embezzled money and a drink in your hand and never come back. Actually seems like the best option overall...

[–] WhyIAughta@lemmy.world 118 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Happened to a buddy of mine, took out a bunch of loans during covid, and stopped paying rent. he didn’t travel but he lived large, pretty much spent it all on prostitutes and what not, then when the money ran out he couldn’t pull the trigger.

With a little help he got instituted for a few days and then got some government funded counselling (not in the states obviously)

He couch surfed for a bit, luckily we have a tight friend group

He landed back on his feet, still on the hook for all of it and the government started garnishing his wages, But he found a good stable girl who takes care of him and he’s happier than I’ve ever seen him, he works, he takes care of himself. I’m proud of him. He’s come a long way.

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Sometimes thats the attitude it takes

[–] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 days ago (5 children)

At that point why not just declare bankruptcy? If he was couch surfing then he had no assets to lose. Sure bankruptcy fucks your credit for a while but it's better than having nothing and still having your wage garnished. That's literally the situation that bankruptcy exists for. If you somehow get yourself in a truely irrecoverable amount of debt then it's your get out of jail relatively free card.

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[–] hash@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 days ago (5 children)

If we all did this capitalism would collapse.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"if we all stopped working and just did drugs and hookers the economy would collapse" is not that deep of a thought.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but it being a desirable outcome is a bit novel.

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[–] M137@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not problems ending up ON prison, you just jump down the side.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

> Open 2 bank accounts
> Get 2 credit cards
> Use 1 cc to pay the bill of the other cc
> repeat until credit score is big and cc limit is thru the roof
> go on spending spree
> 2 months of everything free
> flee to country that won't deport you as criminal

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

As someone who games banks as best I can this would absolutely not work.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As best you legally can…

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

Ah, yes, let's go with that.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Share your wisdom on how you would best take out a loan before suicide

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Not anymore at least

[–] invertedspear@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago

Credit cards caught on to this around 2010 or so. That’s why balance transfers always have a fee now. You could do this with either balance transfers or cash advances, both of which have fees now. So you’ll end up increasing the balance by 3% each month.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

My grandparents did this for decades with 20+ cards. Yes it's illegal to do this.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 70 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Just put your ultra capitalist hat when the time comes to repay them. Tell them its a free market and they took a risk like all for profit ventures, but its not looking good for them and better luck next time. Also nice tits bro, very milk.

[–] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thats how i feel about the idiot debt collectors making themselves liable for my small medical debts :) like, i didnt ask you to pay for that bro but thanks i guess lol

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[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I've heard of people getting their credit score up, taking out all their lines of credit, then dipping to Europe for 10 years to start a business. By the time they came back, their credit scores were fine again because it had been long enough to not affect it. Obviously planning to do this ahead of time is illegal, but if it just happens by circumstance and you're stuck in Europe and can't pay back the debt for 10 years then like…

[–] Steve@startrek.website 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Default judgment wants a word with you

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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My brother in Christ, have you heard of filing bankruptcy?

[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 day ago

I... Declare... BANKRUPTCY!!!

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 59 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I like how this image smugly pretends like it's above it all when lust and time wasting questions are like 2/5 pillars of the human condition.

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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Picture related ... Or not?

Tjat aside anaon, just decakre bankruptcy.

But i think anon's plan will fall at the first hurdle, getting a large loan requires collateral.

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It might work that way in the first life but then when you're reborn you're gonna have really poor credit score and that sucks too in its own way.

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