I’m going to eat his kidney (Not Chases’)
I call dibs on his left ear.
I think It’ll fry up nice and crispy. Then add a little hot sauce and cheese… Mmm…
Organ meats probably best backed up with wine, probably best to have beer with the parts used for crackle.
Building a nation of indentured servants.
I wonder what would happen if people did a “debt strike”. If everybody stopped paying their debts at the same time, the credit card company’s wouldn’t be able to afford to punish everybody. They going to repossess 100k cars and houses etc?
This is more or less my vision of the only possible successful revolution we can have in the face of the ongoing destruction of our civilization by a relative handful of destructively wealthy and/or power-hungry assholes.
A revolution that simply seeks to replace the power structure is doomed, because the best case scenario is that we’ll just end up with a somewhat different set of assholes. And any revolution built on violence will only lead to yet another violent society, with the most willing and able to commit the most violence against the most people yet again at the top.
The successful revolution will be enough people simply refusing to submit.
As you say, there’s an upper limit to the number of people the assholes can punish, imprison or kill. And if we exceed that limit by far enough, the entire illusion of their power will collapse.
And that’s the crucial point - their power is ultimately an illusion. It only really exists to the degree that people believe it exists and submit to it in the belief that it exists. If enough people deny its existence, the assholes will reach a point at which nothing theyvdo will work, and that’ll be the end of their illusory power.
Unfortunately, that’s going to require a humanity notably different from the current one - a humanity that’s broadly ready and willing to take a stand, even if that means they’ll suffer individually, in order to free human society from the rule of the egotists and narcissists and megalomaniacs and psychopaths.
Maybe someday…
The government would cover the credit card company’s debts while going after one consumer at a time. Then moderates would celebrate a great victory when the credit card company paid the government back, see, everything worked out!
“first they came for the brown dudes and I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t a slave. Yet.”
Winning bigly
i’m beginning to think france did the colonies no favors by providing crucial aid and support in their war for ‘freedom’ two and a half centuries ago.
I just looked up “UK news” and copied the first link
They’re not doing any better than us right now.
the u.s. (well, most of, anyway) would likely be 🇨🇦 canadian 🇨🇦
Next: Repackage the BNPL loans into debt based instruments used by investors.
Then: The entire economy crashes and we given Elon Musk control over our financial system.
Eventually: We go extinct like we deserve.
But for a brief moment, the shareholders made a fortune.
Oh yeah, it’s slavery time
Oh no, no, these aren’t slaves. These are warehouse atholeets.
No idea if you’re joking or not, because UPS legitimately refers to their warehouse personnel as “industrial athletes.”
Truly the darkest timeline.
“This kidney transplant is available to you at a low, low price of $2999.99/month.
Subject to repossession if you miss any payments!”Repo! The Genetic Opera vibes right there. Also topical because Anthony head just died
This was a good sci-fi movie at release, never knew it would be predicting the future on some level.
The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan. Clients who miss payments are hunted down by Repo Men, skilled assassins who “repossess” the organs
That’s what I was going for.
The movie Repo Men from 2010 immediately jumps to mind.
“Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.”
That’s what I was going for.
Was that what you were going for?
For how many months?
Insurance company: All of them
It’s not a payment plan, it’s a leasing contract.
I will just simply not pay
This is the so-called “trickle-up economics”
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
But have you seen the Dow?!!!?
Black mirror did an episode about this sort of thing. It was very dark
Common People
Fuck that episode hasn’t made me feel anything since like Season 2
The subscription route?
How about we evaluate why these things cost so much? Maybe if we idk, actually allow people the medical care they need instead of criminalizing them and gouging them maybe people would actually consider this country becoming a favorable place to live.
Whatever though people are choosing to have less and less children so ** when we die in debt an we have millions of dollars in debt due to probably a 8% apr, the government can go fuck itself looking for that debt collection because we’re not gonna have any family to pay those people back. Given that most people’s next of kin is responsible for their debt if they die.**
So yeah, I mean push people to thier limits and force us all into debt and then wonder why no one wants to procreate and yeah like anyone wants that 8%apr payment plan for crapping out an offspring that they so desperatly want you to keep and not abort but can’t afford to take care of and NOW they cut MORE Programs that help families and then go: no, no, no, there’s payment plans. Which agian shows they care about, what could be and not really is. It shows they don’t want to know what is going on and only use a heavily biased generalization.
Fuck outta here. I hope they all see a psychiatrist.
In the US, relatives aren’t responsible for a deceased relative’s debt unless they co-signed or live in Pennsylvania with certain circumstances.
Just wanted to let people know to NEVER pay debt from a deceased person unless you absolutely know you are legally responsible. They will try to hassle you and lie into getting you to pay, and just one payment can make things so much harder for you.
Thank you for letting me know that.
“The debt will serve both to enrich us, and to keep them compliant”
