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A Boring Dystopia
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Some people get cash back
Plus it builds your credit score. I just set up auto-pay and pretend that it's my debit card, never buying more with it than I can pay off immediately, that way it's impossible to end up in debt. Been doing that for almost a decade now.
Because the credit card companies get a bonus every time a customer buys some overpriced slop on their card, so they incentivise buying from these companies by saying 'you get cashback' (and the card company get a payout, the interest from your account, and all the associated data about your purchasing habits and location)
Use the credit card for the rewards then pay it off daily
I had a credit card for years before I even realized you could just... not pay it off every month? I still don't understand why anyone would do that. Even when I had virtually no money I just bought the cheapest food I could with my credit card and continued to pay it off every month.
Spending money you don't have just means you're spending more money with interest when you don't have money in the first place. Unless you know you'll be in a better place soon and you just need to make it there, you're just making things easier right now in exchange for making things even harder than now just a little ways down the line.
Credit cards should only be used to spend what money you already have, so you can build good credit to have when you start being more financially stable. Like, sure, we all hate the system that judges us like that, but we can better fight to change it if we're not homeless.
Yeah well it doesn’t matter since everything is short term oriented goals. Just keep the moment.
Yeah, but, some cash you never get back