$8 for a McFlurry sounds absurd
11$ in total
This might actually be a good way to teach kids about credit and interest. Let them borrow a small amount at a high interest rate and walk them through paying it off.
It’s one thing to tell them about financial responsibility. But watching a bad choice drain their piggy bank is the sort of trauma that leaves a scar.
Let’s not scar children to teach them lessons. I’m sure there’s a better way to teach a kid about interest besides getting a loan from McDonald’s.
A couple dollars is a cheap price for such a valuable lesson.
But its just literally feeding McDonald’s for no reason . Maybe the parents could rent money to kids in this way if you really wanna teach them that " lesson" for whatever reason .
Fine, do it at In-N-Out
If that was the reason for it then great idea. Having to buy icecream on a payment plan is just sad and more than a little crazy
Oh I don’t know if that was the reason for the one in the image. I agree with you that needing to finance ice cream is sad. I’m just thinking it could be a good intro to predatory finance for kids.
Credit seems like a tax on the poor.
You don’t have to use credit, taxes are taken from you by force. Not comparable imo.
Being able to live isn’t a choice.
Are you saying you need credit to live? Because that’s not true. Lot’s of people live that way, but it’s not necessary.
It can be. Depending on the circumstances in life you are in, credit may be the only way you’re able to pay for food.
You can’t do that forever though. Eventually you’ll run out of credit and have to pay for it yourself. And by that point you’re probably getting crushed by the debt from a maxed out card, that you’d have been better off not using in the first place.
Correct. But it’s either this or literally starve. That’s why you’ve got people here saying it isn’t really a choice.
Have you ever been poor? Yes, sometimes you need credit to live. I’m still paying off debt from 2020 that I only acquired due to desperation and the threat of homelessness
You also don’t have to pay taxes. Plenty of rich people don’t
The richest Americans lobbied the government aggressively to pay less taxes. They’re all skipping out on their fair share and foisting the burden on everyone with less than 100 million in the bank.
This is why we should eat the richest person each year and re-distribute their wealth.
Imagine all those greedy fucks using their vast wealth to investigate and call out the real wealth and scummy accounting of the other ultra wealthy.
