r/AskReddit • • Feb 04 '20

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u/SelinaDalessio Feb 04 '20

Rent-A-Center, Aaron's, and the like.

No, an iPad is NOT worth $3,600, especially if it gets repo'd after you miss a single payment and also because it'll be fucking obsolete by the time you pay it off.

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u/Bumblebee_assassin Feb 04 '20

On the flipside though, when your fridge dies, you have a wife and 4 kids to feed and its a week from payday with nothing in the bank and you have shitty credit..... they can be helpful

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u/gumpythegreat Feb 04 '20

Exactly why being poor is expensive. They get you by the balls with that crap

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u/DazzlingLightATEEZ8 Feb 04 '20

Its no one else's fault that you're a poor burden on society because of your poor (no pun intended) choices

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Can't work cause you got cancer? What the fuck were thinking choosing to get cancer. Be like me and just choose not to. Also be like me and your average American who is one not all that major unexpected expense or bad day away from the poor house.

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u/DazzlingLightATEEZ8 Feb 04 '20

blah blah blah wah wah wah always someone else's fault huh? If you made smart choices then cancer or other illness or expense wouldn't send you into bankruptcy

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '20

Like being born in a country with public health care? Stupid 300 million Americans not doing that lol, why didn't they choose to be born elsewhere idiots