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Maxatar • yesterday at 7:53 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I'm not trying to prove anything. I am pointing out that your claim about the cause of many/most lower and middle class people's bankruptcy is false.

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AshleyGrant • yesterday at 8:22 PM

They never made that claim.

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mothballed • yesterday at 8:21 PM

I did not make that claim. I made the following:

  Bankruptcy won't even discharge the kind of debt many/most of the lower-middle class fall broke upon.
The whole point was that bankruptcy wasn't a remedy discharging these forms of going broke. It's unsurprising the bankruptcy data leans towards a 'cause' that will actually discharge their debt, otherwise the incentive for a broke person to file bankruptcy is lowered.
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