Layaway

[bleistift2@sopuli.xyz]

I don’t know what’s sadder: Dominoe’s offering to pay pizza over 6 weeks; people being so poor that they have to pay a pizza over 6 weeks; or people being so dumb that they still buy pizza that they have to pay over 6 weeks when they have no money.

[aeronmelon@lemmy.world]

The fatal flaw with this is, I will want another pizza inside of six weeks. Can I put a double mortgage on the first pizza to pay for the second pizza?

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

"You think you're better than me? You're not! You've all reposted my drool memes!"

[satans_methpipe@lemmy.world]

My ex signed up for food stamps at one point. But she had new boots and plenty of weed to smoke.

[gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works]

Could be risky - you don’t want to end up upside-down on your pizza mortgage

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

[abcdqfr@lemmy.ml]

Sounds like somebody isn't making the most out of their weekly slice...

[track_shovel@slrpnk.net]

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

I want to be upside down under Luigi

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

Don't ever criticize people who accept welfare. They are not the problem.

[brewchin@lemmy.world]

Fintechs are trying to get their grubby little claws into everyone who's desperate or stupid enough, so wouldn't surprise me at all if BNPL* companies are doing deals with takeaway places.

I genuinely pity anyone using this because they need to.

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*Not sure about elsewhere, but in the UK this legal predatory practice is called Buy Now Pay Later. Online loan sharking without the broken kneecaps.

[satans_methpipe@lemmy.world]

I already did and I will continue to do so. They prioritized purchasing weed and designer boots instead of buying groceries for themselves. That welfare money was for people that are actually struggling and not just pissing away their money without any consideration for the future.

[anticorp@lemmy.world]

As for the latter, sometimes you have no other options, so you do things that you know are financially bad decisions because otherwise you starve. When I was younger I'd knowingly write bad checks at the grocery store because I needed food and couldn't get it any other way. I'd have a paycheck coming in a few days, and knew I'd have to pay the fee, but it was that or starve.

[anticorp@lemmy.world]

If she can't afford footwear, weed, and food, then she is struggling. These are not lavish purchases. Did you know that corporations are the largest recipients of welfare in the country? We're talking hundreds of billions of dollars more than personal welfare payments.

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

you're one of the people not worth saving.

[satans_methpipe@lemmy.world]

Buying close to $1,000 in footwear when all your other footwear is 100% functional and then realizing you need stamps to buy food is a problem.

[satans_methpipe@lemmy.world]

What do I need saving from? I kind of seems like you're threatening me with violence.

[anticorp@lemmy.world]

Yeah, that's problematic spending. How did she qualify for food stamps if her income was high enough to have $1000 to spend on boots? At one point in my life I was upside down after paying rent, insurance, utilities, and car payment, and was still told I had too much money when I applied for food stamps. I was literally upside down with negative dollars in my bank account, no job & no prospects due to recession, on unemployment, and the State said I had too much money.

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

You just reported me to myself, dumbshit.