The Debt Dream: You Have The Right To Debt
Hey J-dreamers
We've all been told growing up that the best way to live is to get an education and buy a home. Not many people question this logic and follow it blindly without many nuances or thought behind it. These two things are seen as lifetime achievements, something to be celebrated and a safe investment in your future.
But have you ever questioned who benefits from these so-called investments in yourself? Have you ever questioned the quality of the product you're getting for the considerable financial burden you place yourself under?
I don't think many if any, do!
The higher cost of higher education
If you want to get a so-called higher education these days and you do not have family wealth, or you are cash-rich then you need to finance it via student loans. Student loans are seen as an investment because once you complete your studies, you will now be able to access higher-paying jobs in exchange for the money and 4 - 5 years of studies.
When in fact, it is only the barrier to entry that's the problem.
Companies are encouraged to only hire people with degrees instead of human resource managers using their intuition and skill to test if someone is competent in a job or not. It sets up an artificial barrier to entry that you have to pay for to break through, a sort of pay to play scenario.
The content of the degree varies, and some are worth it while others not so much yet they are all pretty expensive to get one.
Also, to be saddled with a degree that only improves your chances of getting you a job and doesn't guarantee you one, you are also delayed from entering the working world for 3 - 5 years. Robbing you of valuable work experience and wages you could have put to good use elsewhere.
Perhaps starting your savings or paying for training that will improve your job output or even starting a small side business.
For more on the school systems inadequacies check out my post - Why The Current Education System Is An Antiquated Fallacy
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The dream of homeownership
Once you've navigated the tertiary education trap and gound a job its now time to get yourself a home, preferably close to your current work to save on the commuting time and costs which is physically impossible in some cities with the sheer amount of people and demand along with the concentration fo business districts.
Due to this craze to own a home, the prices continue to rise, and as they rise, people could no longer purchase them with cash and needed to borrow money from the bank. The banks would then continue to provide loans to more and more people and even develop homes to sell and create even higher demand.
They drove up home prices and continued to fund loans to drive up demand. This now diverts 20 years or more of a person's potential income into one investment which is widely unsustainable, and many people will be left with nothing or owe money if housing prices correct.
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You have the right to debt
Both education and homeownership should be rights, but they are becoming privileges for a select few and marginalising those who aren't able to pay to play. The system is slowly eating itself from the inside, and while the poor and leveraged middle class will feel it first, very few of us will be safe once this all comes crashing down.
We have an option now
We are now in a downward debt spiral and since they are the only game in town central banking has tied us to this sinking ship. Satoshi saw this with the 2008 crisis and gave us a financial tool to break free, opt-out or just hedge your bets with something other than fiat-backed anything.
It's taken Bitcoin 10 years to become one of the largest stores of the value of a single financial product and we're only at the beginning. The value will only continue to grow and fund this alternative economy that cannot be stopped. Instead of only creating value from the debt, we create value from saving, from trading and from a finite resource that cannot be controlled.
Unless we start to curb our reliance on the banks and their toxic money we will never be able to correct the wrongs and constantly feeding the machine is not helping.
Everyone should buy and own a little bit of Bitcoin in protest and show their faith in building a new world economy. Be it 1BTC or 1 Sat, show your support for financial freedom.
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What do you think about Trine.com? Loan - yes. But they also show the positive side of loan.
I have some money there to get good ROI and make some change.
Never heard of them, but it looks very interesting. I think being in a green space and private funding is a good idea and I think you can earn even more in the future as the cost of operation reduces with scale.
They are pretty big already and I will try to promote them in sweden more. (even with ref-link). In sweden P2P-loan is also growing very fast. But with a company that have the administration.
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I can imagine, if your banks are offering negative interest rates to consumers I would much rather enter the P2P loan market with my capital to get a better deal on my funds. I think P2P insurance will also become pretty big soon
Yes and that is what is happening. IN bankaccount you can get 1%. IN p2p 6-8% or more. With high security. It is only about 2% of this loans that is not payed back. So if you split up your investment in many loans it is a good deal.
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6-8% isn't bad at all. I think if it's mixed in a pool instead of direct P2P you could go even higher because you offset the defaults. It sounds like its only the beginning. I'll keep an eye on it, thanks for the tip. BTW did you ever get crypto.com?
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Glad I paid cash for my home and I left school at the end of year 10 and went straight into a job. All my friends went on to year 12 and most went further to college of university. I had my home and car's paid for before most finished there education. They said I was silly to leave so early in my education that I should continue on. I furthered my work education on the job getting paid to learn lol.
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Well to do something that is against what everyone else is doing you are always going to be met with resistance. I'm glad it worked out for you and that you are debt-free, it's now one of the most important times to hold less debt or none with strong indications of a correction coming.
Those people were sold a dream that won't materialise for everyone. It's not really about your job or your salary but how effectively you manage it, the rest is just trimmings
Interest loans are forbidden in Islam teachings, not many people follow that these days (and we have Banks! Those work on interest loans) but we started to see real life example of what terrible things these can do.
Interest isn't by definition a bad thing if two people agree sure, but the banks became the only game in town to get money and hiked up prices far more than needed and lend to vulnerable people. it really is terrible but we as consumers have to start to learn to say no its the only way to make change
Yeah, I know that it isn't inherently bad, it just that it easily leads to problems. It's sad how the rich take advantage of the less fortunate people.
I feel we can't throw the baby out with the bathwater and the mechanism of lending capital to others for them to build wealth is tool we can't deny has helped the world improve. It has just been misused by greedy people who are trying to serve their own interests instead of trying to rise the tide for everyone.
I've tried to tell people before If you don't like the way a business operates stop using them you have the power to put them out of business but the less fortunate also only think about themselves and what they can get and prop up these businesses.
There is fault on both sides and for it to be corrected its the demand side that needs to change or the supply won't see the need to do anything
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