• Robert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem]
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      171 year ago

      One of my boomer relatives maxed out their credit cards before filing for bankruptcy but considered it mooching for me to accept financial aid totaling $1200 a year for school.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        101 year ago

        For me it was a boomer buying power tools, using them for one job, then returning them. Idk if it was fraud, but this wasn’t a “fuck the corporations steal everything” boomer and I was just a kid so it always smelled wrong.

  • Black_Mald_Futures [any]
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    361 year ago

    I got free shoes from amazon because the delivery driver put them at the unit 3 floors downstairs for some fucking reason, if whoever wrote this article thinks I shouldn’t have gotten my money back they can ligma balls

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    81 year ago

    compare the pearl-clutching for this with the culture of outright encouragement when it comes to tax fraud. deeply unserious country where there’s an entire industry dedicated to making sure businesses don’t have to fund the local schoolbus but a poor person taking advantage of a (privately-owned) system is a national crisis

  • Gorillatactics [none/use name]
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    81 year ago

    The main strategy of tech companies in the past decade was to get billions of interest free loans in the hope that they’d become “The Uber of x.” How could anyone experience the rise of the platforms and not conclude that fraud is a spectrum. Like Moviepass was a thing, how would a one time subscription for the movie theater ever be profitable in even the medium term.

  • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I can’t get enough of these articles about how cool zoomers are lol. between quiet quitting, the NEET stuff, and this, it’s actually so heartening. lost decades incoming for the so-called west.

    also a friend of a friend once bought an entire gaming PC one component at a time off Amazon, claimed none of it arrived and got refunded for them all lol. it’s hilarious what you can get away with with these megacorps

  • @ssj2marx@lemmy.ml
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    71 year ago

    dispute a transaction despite it being legitimate

    lmao I’ve never done this but it’s definitely in my back pocket if I ever really need cash.

    I do want to say though, I’ve seen a bit of this among crypto people, where all of the regulars have kind of figured out that what their doing is just a series of scams and they’re all just trying to get in on one early enough to make money doing it.