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Buying groceries in installments is already bad enough, but if you are very good at lying to yourself and very bad at the detecting your own lies, you may be able to convince yourself that you are not going to need to buy groceries for the next four months.
But even this twisted kind of logic does not apply to rent.
Why do I keep getting surprised every time a new height of dumbness gets launched?
It's not about dumb clients, everyone knows they have to spy groceries and rent, but being between literally being unable to buy groceries and having groceries and debt, many will choose the latter. It's predatory