• @BenLeMan
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    381 month ago

    The process is you pay what you owe. As per the covenant you voluntarily and explicitly entered upon. It’s one thing to not understand that roads do not magically appear to facilitate your traveling (“not driving”), and that the privilege of using them is concomitant with obligations you have to fulfill. But trying to weasel out of paying your bills is a move made entirely in bad faith.

      • @BenLeMan
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        311 month ago

        If you take a loan from me you better be prepared to compensate me for it. Or buy only what you can afford. Mind you, I consider myself a lefty but that’s just common sense.

        • Victoria Antoinette
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          -281 month ago

          interest bearing loans are not leftist. please don’t associate your bad ethics with my politics.

          • @Windex007
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            141 month ago

            I think what they’re saying is that despite being “left”, they’re aware that in an inflationary economy an “interest-free loan” isn’t merely a opportunity-cost for the lender, it’s a concrete cost.

            • @BenLeMan
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              61 month ago

              They are indeed! Thanks for the translation. 👍

            • Victoria Antoinette
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              -131 month ago

              economics theory is just story telling. it’s not science.

              also, being a leftist means opposing rent seeking.

              • @Windex007
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                61 month ago

                Can you elaborate on your first point and how you relate it to this context?

                • Victoria Antoinette
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                  -21 month ago

                  saying

                  "they’re aware that in an inflationary economy an “interest-free loan” isn’t merely a opportunity-cost for the lender, it’s a concrete cost.

                  Is merely repeating a popular myth. The existence of an inflationary economy is a purely rhetorical invention. As is the idea of a concrete cost. Opportunity costs have the same story. They’re just ways of understanding the world but they are not objectively true.

                  So while that user may believe the myth that you articulated, that myth is not itself true.

                  • @Windex007
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                    11 month ago

                    Thank you for clarifying what you are thinking