• alokir@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Credit scores are a scam to sell credit cards.

    You take small loans each month via a credit card that you have to pay back. This increases an imaginary number that lets you take out bigger loans in the furure.

    This is all tracked by private companies that you trust with your personal data. That, or you’ll not be able to take out a loan if you want to buy a house or start a business.

    If you have a good credit score it means that you don’t overspend or forget to pay, which you can also achieve with a regular debit card by default. This doesn’t serve people, only the banks who expect that a number of people will overspend or not be able to pay their loans back.

    Credit cards alone aren’t the problem. Forcing them on people with the credit score system is.