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Data center fees trickling down to citizens
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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How the fuck should a loan program help paying for monthly recurring costs?!
Well, in the past (and the present in many places) perpetual unrepayable debts were used as a way to implement slavery without calling it slavery. They call it debt peonage. You know, food for thought.
the more I'm debt you get the more you owe them,
Short term it pads the companies books a bit more by adding an asset on top of the revenue. Medium term it's a perpetual impairment generator. The executives are just planning to cash out before the inevitable happens.
It helps people who can still pay on average but have an unexpected cost which, due to higher bills, now pushes them into the red.
I guess they cover you for a while until you figure it out. It's better than nothing ig.
In the corporate world, if you are taking on debt to fund operations, that's an indicator that your business is circling the drain. The same applies to personal finance.
It's really not. What it does is trap these people in endless debt. Now we don't know any details about these loans, but there's no way in hell the customers aren't going to be paying fees and interest. A loan of $40 will be a loan of $100 the next month and so on. This is a way to make extra off of the people who have nothing.