Post B10P2SeJC65pZrj6bg by peachfront@toot.community
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 (DIR) Post #B10I4lylb6AAQcS156 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-12-07T11:27:38Z
       
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       Loans are also a form of gambling. Gambling that you'll have more in the future. "If my polymarket bet comes through I'll have no problem paying off my klarna."Can you bet on ploymarket and pay for it "in four" yet?People say they hate math, but their minds are swimming with numbers.
       
 (DIR) Post #B10J3l1JmDo97RiwUa by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-12-07T11:38:39Z
       
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       There are more important things in life than making money. But if you want to make money is it unfair or controversial of me to suggest that you ought to create something of value along the way?Make a product and sell it. (Grow food, make clothes, build furniture)Perform a service that people need (Change the bedpan, cook dinner, organize the library)Stop trying to make money when you have done nothing.
       
 (DIR) Post #B10JPN5vPdhJHmBXiC by thierry_van_kerm@mastodon.social
       2025-12-07T11:42:31Z
       
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       @futurebird 👏
       
 (DIR) Post #B10K0EZM4XwhYkWoK0 by dnkboston@apobangpo.space
       2025-12-07T11:39:39Z
       
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       @futurebird My "favorite" of these: the student loan, which is a bet not just on your future but market conditions you have no control over.
       
 (DIR) Post #B10P2SeJC65pZrj6bg by peachfront@toot.community
       2025-12-07T12:45:36Z
       
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       @futurebird it shouldn't be controversial / unfair but this is the least profitable way of making money so if one desperately needs money, this advice (VERY often given to the middle and under class) only causes you to fall in deeper debt while acquiring the tools needed to "make" & "serve" because such jobs rarely pay enough or only pay well on a jackpot basis (celebrity chefs, designers, etc. vs everybody else)
       
 (DIR) Post #B10VApBfsgnJWIhjcG by oblomov@sociale.network
       2025-12-07T13:54:19Z
       
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       @futurebird the problem is that lending (money or anything else for that matter) *is* a service that people need, and as such it deserves compensation. What's interesting is that it has been known for millenia how easy it is to abuse, which is why e.g. some religious texts include rules that either prohibit or severely restricts lending on interest.