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What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It clicked with me the other day that store credit cards are an evolution of the original idea of credit, where an individual lender would allow purchases on credit. But now they are pretty much all the same Visa/MasterCard with different company logos and colors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Visa and mastercard are just middlemen that offer payment processing. They don't actually do the credit itself.