They also borrowed the money from each other too, so each has a $25 card and a $25 debt. The debt will never be paid, and they’ll acrue interest with each other. They’ll all use the growing debt as a justification to cut social services.
Making it FOSS wouldn’t solve the problem, because FOSS tools can still be used by capitalists to displace workers and erode worker bargaining power.
This is true of pretty much EVERY tool, but never has a tool had the potential to negatively impact so many in such a diversity of roles.
So again, the problem isn’t closed source, the problem is capitalism. If you fixed the problems of capitalism, then all software tools would naturally be FOSS, but that’s a product of fixing the problems, not the mechanism to fix the problems.
The idiotic catch-22 of credit, you need to use credit you don’t need in order to prove that you can pay back credit you do need.
Eg good luck getting a car loan or a mortgage at a reasonable rate if you don’t have credit history.
Ironically OP could probably absolutely qualify for a loan despite barely being able to pay off debts, because lenders want to make money off of you more than they want you to pay back their loans on time. Late fees and interest 🤑
Key word “tries” I would die of embarrassment if someone was like “I noticed you’re lonely so have this huge ass flag to indicate to everyone that you’re alone”