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Paypal's had this for some time. No surprise others in the same space are following suit.
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Mar 29, 2023 00:34
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They already offer 12- and 24-month payment plans via the Apple Card; this new thing is just for small(er) purchases on Apple stuff (“small” and “Apple” lol), with payments every week or so. So you buy something for $1000 and pay some amount per week for like 6 weeks. The big takeaway is that they’re creating their own financing arm, so yeah, they’re cutting out the fees they pay and keeping it for themselves now. So gg Goldman Sachs.
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Mar 29, 2023 00:37
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Mar 29, 2023 00:40
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anime was right posted:yeah, or some other kind of fee. the point is to get people to use apple pay and get your stuff in the system to build habits first I’ve been seeing Klarna ads everywhere and apparently even FAST FOOD is something you should be taking a loan for. if apple can lock all their customers into their own financing platform they’re gonna make bank. very cool economy
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Mar 29, 2023 00:41
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Thread well ahead of the discourse yet again https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/27/...ce=articleShare
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Mar 29, 2023 00:44
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skooma512 posted:Constitutional Oligarchy with Market Characteristics This should have been the thread title
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Mar 29, 2023 00:45
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Anytime you see massive drops in the market followed by a huge upswing you have to be a compete moron to go “yeah, time to buy.”
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Mar 29, 2023 00:46
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A Bakers Cousin posted:her group rates are pretty good 
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Mar 29, 2023 00:46
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roffles posted:I’ve been seeing Klarna ads everywhere and apparently even FAST FOOD is something you should be taking a loan for. if apple can lock all their customers into their own financing platform they’re gonna make bank. very cool economy When I saw the Klarna ad for doing a payment plan to buy a pizza, that's when I think I fully realized just how over this country is. There's no way an empire could sustain fast food financing as a viable necessity and still be recognizable inside of a decade.
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Mar 29, 2023 00:51
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SlimGoodbody posted:When I saw the Klarna ad for doing a payment plan to buy a pizza, that's when I think I fully realized just how over this country is. There's no way an empire could sustain fast food financing as a viable necessity and still be recognizable inside of a decade. ?? if financing literally everything can be normalized behavior, then the misery can really skyrocket. seems like a fine way to dominate?
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Mar 29, 2023 00:56
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meanolmrcloud posted:?? if financing literally everything can be normalized behavior, then the misery can really skyrocket. seems like a fine way to dominate? Oh for sure, but like, for how long? That bill comes due eventually, right? Like no matter how many layers of mediation and obfuscation and rent-seeking gets imposed between a human being and human needs (food, water, shelter, medicine), ultimately the physical reality of those needs has to meet and be consumed by the physical human at a constant rate in order for the whole train to keep sputtering along. If people get crushed out of the system by, essentially, school lunch debt at a pan-societal scale, I don't see how the system can realistically continue to thrive, profit, or exist. Maybe a shorter way to put it is that nobody can buy your stuff if they're dead or impoverished, so pushing towards a system that can only produce those two outcomes for a geometrically increasing percentage of the population seems... untenable.
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Mar 29, 2023 01:06
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Thread well ahead of the discourse yet again quote:The problem here is not that our economic models don’t work at all. The models seem serviceable when things are simple and stable, when we are in a steady state with tons of past data to draw on. The problem is that the models don’t work when our economy is weird. And that’s precisely when we most need them to work. (astro)physics dumped the steady-state model 50+ years ago despite the protests of Nobel prize winners, what is economics waiting for?
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Mar 29, 2023 01:12
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SlimGoodbody posted:Oh for sure, but like, for how long? That bill comes due eventually, right? Like no matter how many layers of mediation and obfuscation and rent-seeking gets imposed between a human being and human needs (food, water, shelter, medicine), ultimately the physical reality of those needs has to meet and be consumed by the physical human at a constant rate in order for the whole train to keep sputtering along. If people get crushed out of the system by, essentially, school lunch debt at a pan-societal scale, I don't see how the system can realistically continue to thrive, profit, or exist. the name of the game is 'Eliminationism'. Between COVID/homelessness/lack of access to medical care/opioids the aristocracy is betting they can kill off a significant portion of the population and because we're so atomized no one will even notice. They're more likely to be right than wrong, sadly.
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Mar 29, 2023 01:14
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Penisaurus Sex posted:the name of the game is 'Eliminationism'. Doesn't address his main point: We can't buy their trash if we're dead and capitalism is a giant machine, you can't just kick the legs out of huge sectors of the economy and have the rest be ok
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Mar 29, 2023 01:16
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Regarde Aduck posted:Doesn't address his main point: We can't buy their trash if we're dead and capitalism is a giant machine, you can't just kick the legs out of huge sectors of the economy and have the rest be ok we'll see. It seems like capitalists are a lot more interested in just staying on top than seeking more profit via exchange.
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Mar 29, 2023 01:17
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Regarde Aduck posted:Doesn't address his main point: We can't buy their trash if we're dead and capitalism is a giant machine, you can't just kick the legs out of huge sectors of the economy and have the rest be ok They are reorienting the economy so it will work if large swathes of people can no longer consume.
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Mar 29, 2023 01:19
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Mr Hootington posted:They are reorienting the economy so it will work if large swathes of people can no longer consume. that sounds a lot like "trying to gaslight their way through The Collapse unscathed" which really worked for french nobles et al
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Mar 29, 2023 01:23
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a rising lol lifts all lmaos
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Mar 29, 2023 01:24
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silentsnack posted:that sounds a lot like "trying to gaslight their way through The Collapse unscathed" which really worked for french nobles et al 'Surely we can automate the peasants.'
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Mar 29, 2023 01:26
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I don't see anything self-contradictory at all for the parasites trying to turn everyone into hosts.
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Mar 29, 2023 01:28
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Mr Hootington posted:They are reorienting the economy so it will work if large swathes of people can no longer consume. What would that even look like? There's only so much smoke and mirrors you can use to get rich dickheads to trade $100,000 monkey jpegs back and forth without the economy just idk not meaning anything? Everything, everything, is really just a luxury appendage bolted, Frankenstein style, onto the same basic torso of that basic bottom floor of Maslow's hierarchy. You can't invert that pyramid, right? Like, lotus eating can't really be an economy without people growing, harvesting, and delivering lotuses, and all those people need food, shelter, etc. I'm sure automation can handle it to some degree, but I don't know if the elites are actually terribly interested in a world where the only people who consume anything are them and their shrinking cohort, and the only thing they consume is various forms of valueless, zero calorie, gilded frosting that arbitrarily costs eleven million dollars an ounce. Edit: Koirhor posted:a rising lol lifts all lmaos Thread title
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Mar 29, 2023 01:28
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Business innovation dot gif
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Mar 29, 2023 01:29
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SerfGPT
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Mar 29, 2023 01:30
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anyone have the tweet with the binance my_crimes.txt collage with "two eyes closed" front and center? tia e: nm found it https://twitter.com/gf_256/status/1640616280788193280
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Mar 29, 2023 01:30
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Penisaurus Sex posted:we'll see. It seems like capitalists are a lot more interested in just staying on top than seeking more profit via exchange. How can you stay on top of a seething mass of pissed off humans if you have no money nor any ability to produce anything? Our "betters" use tech, money, and treats to keep people under control, so start yanking those away and people aren't just gonna lie down in a gutter and die, they'll burn down a city.
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Mar 29, 2023 01:31
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australian CPI CRATERS to a mere 6.8, number goes wild
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Mar 29, 2023 01:32
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our betters are, in fact, betting on everybody just lying down in a gutter and dying
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Mar 29, 2023 01:33
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Crippling inflation: one weird trick to reduce debt that lenders HATE
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Mar 29, 2023 01:34
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Penisaurus Sex posted:the name of the game is 'Eliminationism'. lol since we're already at "No one wants to work anymore"
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Mar 29, 2023 01:35
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0 rows returned posted:our betters are, in fact, betting on everybody just lying down in a gutter and dying Nah, they're pumping a ton of money into divisive hateful culture war poo poo so that we'll kill ourselves fighting over the crumbs of their feast.
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Mar 29, 2023 01:35
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Willa Rogers posted:Algorithms for the win with health-insurance stocks. Cigna balls
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Mar 29, 2023 01:35
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0 rows returned posted:our betters are, in fact, betting on everybody just lying down in a gutter and dying Yeah but they're also dumb as gently caress.
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Mar 29, 2023 01:37
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0 rows returned posted:our betters are, in fact, betting on everybody just lying down in a gutter and dying Or killing each other
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Mar 29, 2023 01:38
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Penisaurus Sex posted:we'll see. It seems like capitalists are a lot more interested in just staying on top than seeking more profit via exchange. And how do they intend to stay on top of anyone who either doesn't or stops killing their population? They're destroying the very slaves that make them strong, period. They can't even sell the stuff in on on the land without labor, and they can't raid or demand deals without labor to either corner markets or to shoot anyone who doesn't do what they say. They depopulate the US, and they'll experience a proportional or super proportional loss in wealth, and from that power. They can kill each other to maintain their individual power or settle for only dominating in their little fiefdoms and having to answer to the big boys who didn't intentionally famine themselves, but they aren't going to see their international power do anything but plummet. Oh and all that international reach and power was what held them all together and let them run roughshod over the peons so easily. They're gonna hate being couped by whoever finally decides they want to be a puppet to maintain their position in the world. They can blast others, but they can't blast themselves (and if they do well that solves us doesnt it).
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Mar 29, 2023 01:42
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Dr_0ctag0n posted:Nah, they're pumping a ton of money into divisive hateful culture war poo poo so that we'll kill ourselves fighting over the crumbs of their feast. yea but if you're pulling copper out of the walls to pay the police to protect you from rioters, eventually you run out of wires and the pigs eat you
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Mar 29, 2023 01:42
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0 rows returned posted:our betters are, in fact, betting on everybody just lying down in a gutter and dying It worked for covid
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Mar 29, 2023 01:42
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silentsnack posted:yea but if you're pulling copper out of the walls to pay the police to protect you from rioters, eventually you run out of wires and the pigs eat you OK, but we really need to make our sales goals for this quarter, so don't worry about next quarter.
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Mar 29, 2023 01:44
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Willa Rogers posted:Algorithms for the win with health-insurance stocks. I'm sure there will be legislative and regulatory action on this.
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Mar 29, 2023 01:47
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they're betting on slaves or robots hope that's helps
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