Spyke
lemmy.ca

"while your investment appreciates in value", hopefully.

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Tubicsreply
lemmy.world

Even if it loses 90% of its value it's still a win if the money came from credit cards you never paid back. Although the couple of hundred bucks you get might not be worth the hassle

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Sippy Cupreply
lemmy.world

You will also be unable to take out any debt upon release. It's difficult to get credit as a released felon without a history of defaulting on debt.

So, being generous and saying that he sees a 4% return on his investment, he'll have slightly more than he went in owing, and will be completely unable to even get a car loan, a decent job, or place to live.

He will have turned 0 dollars in to a lifetime of hardship.

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Sotuandusoreply
lemm.ee

Correction: He will have turned 0 dollars into a lifetime of hardship and a few hundred dollars.

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If all of the defaults occurred >7 years ago and there's been no credit activity since the individual would have no credit score because of no credit history. I know this because I've literally seen it happen. What you do then is apply for a secured credit card (basically you pony up some cash to secure an extremely low credit limit) then after you've established a payment history and a credit score you can move on from there. As far as I know financial institutions do not take into account one's felon status when determining elgibility

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One thing I can say definitively about crypto: It will not see a 4% roi.

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lemm.ee

In prison.

Butthole destroyed.

Make check on coin.

Massive loss in value.

No.

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lemmy.world

Just so you know you don't need to go to prison in order to get your butthole destroyed. It's much easier to just go on Grindr, which is only an emotional prison.

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Fun fact you also don't need to go to prison for your crypto to depreciate!

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Hell I've given my butthole quite the thrashing just sitting home by myself.

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lemmy.world

You'd still owe that debt. Unless you go to prison for live than the debt's statute length. Generally 7 years.

Also some jurisdictions make you pay for the privilege of going to prison.

Ymmv, choose your state of jurisdiction very carefully.

Also crypto is a bubble IMO.

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lemmy.world

IMO nothing, it's pure speculation powered by nothing but blind greed. If it isn't a bubble, then nothing is.

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sh.itjust.works

Lmao yeah me trading an hour worth of work for a meal that I will consume is the same thing as me trading an hour of work for a nebulous pile of 1s and 0s and hoping some dipshit will pay 2 hours worth of work for them later

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sh.itjust.works

I make x dollars per hour

A meal at a restaurant costs roughly x dollars

I trade one hour of labor for x dollars, then trade x dollars for one meal

YOU DO THIS TOO

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Sharenireply
programming.dev

So you're working in hope to get a nebulous pile of 1s and 0s or a some colorful pieces of paper. On top of that those numbers and papers have no intrinsic value, but are instead valuated by some dipshits and can become worthless overnight.

What's your point there buddy?

Lmao yeah me trading an hour worth of work for a meal that I will consume is the same thing as me trading an hour of work for a nebulous pile of 1s and 0s and hoping some dipshit will pay 2 hours worth of work for them later

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The money I work for has value because its almost entirely held in banks insured by the United States Federal Reserve and those dollars are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. If that money becomes valueless overnight the whole world is in for a very rough time, and I definitely won't be alone in my plight. You can't say any of that about cryptocurrencies

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those numbers and papers have no intrinsic value, but are instead valuated by some dipshits and can become worthless overnight.

Remind me again what Bitcoin is

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lemmy.world

I mean, logically there's something that people need in some of those...

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Economics is simply a study in how to allocate scarce goods. It does not need to result in hoarding scarce goods in the hope of getting more for them later.

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DrBoomreply
lemmy.ml

How many bubbles pop 3 three times and then proceed to blow up bigger than the last time? I know of exactly zero. Looks more like an adoption curve when expressed logarithmically

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frezikreply
midwest.social

Adoption for what? There's no indication that it's becoming interconnected to the economy at large. Just the opposite, in fact. FTX, one of the biggest crypto banks, completely collapsed and the rest of the economy didn't care. If it was Goldman Sachs or BoA, everyone would be sounding alarm bells, because they are actually integrated into the rest of the economy. Crypto just isn't.

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Adoption as a hedge against fiat debasement, primarily. FTX wasn't a bank BTW, it was a shady exchange that mostly laundered money and stole customers' funds. It was more analogous to a precious metal dealer like JM Bulion or similar, except run by criminals.

The purpose of crypto isn't to integrate with the existing system anyway. The purpose is to provide a parallel system that isn't subject to the kind of manipulation present in the legacy system. Unfortunately, crypto has become completely overrun with scammers and charlatans just looking to take advantage of rubes. The fundamental principals of Bitcoin are still intact in the code and network though, and IMO will win out simply because it is incorruptible and indestructible. The legacy system seems to have decided the same, and is currently adopting a 'if you can't beat em, join em' attitude by pushing for ETF products to offer bitcoin to their customers though more traditional means.

I don't expect my post to change anyone's mind, but I would encourage anyone reading to look into why bitcoin has crashed multiple times and come roaring back each time.

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lemmy.world

Wait if you can avoid debt collectors for 7 years they just forget about you?? Like I could fuck off to another country where they can't garner my wages and come back and they can't do shit about it?

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It’s not that clearcut: they have various tricks to keep it alive, if they know where you are. This is why you never admit to a debt nor pay the token amount they offer; both are tricking you into legally claiming responsibility, so they can keep the debt alive

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Debt is super weird. In some cases you can have thousands very much just disappear after 7 years, in others they'll hunt you down mercilessly over a $25 copay they mailed you a "this is not a bill" letter about 2 years ago. My wife was pretty deep in debt when we first started dating and I literally have seen both extremes and everything inbetween.

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Couldn't you just leave the country and disappear somewhere with a low cost of living? Not like anyone can catch you moving crypto across borders.

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I think you would make more money if you gave handys behind the Wendy's dumpster every day for 7 years.

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CADmonkeyreply
lemmy.world

Just commit a crime with a longer sentence than your state's statute of limitations.

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pawb.social

Come to that you fucked up in step 1. Do you really think the credit card companies are gonna let that debt just sit there not accruing interest and not send debt collectors to your house while you're in jail?

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kasereply
lemmy.world

Not if you sell your house to buy more crypto ;)

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Let's go one further:

  1. Get turned into a vampire

  2. Buy crypto

  3. Go sleep in your coffin for 100 years

  4. ???

  5. Profit

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I mean if I had gone to jail right after I bought any of my crypto I'd be doing better. Sadly, it makes more sense to pull the crypto than default.

I think I had less than a cent of bitcoin and managed to pull 20 later (almost all of it) then another 20 later. Huge percent profit.

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You probably wouldn't need laundered crypto, but you would need to be able to hide it from the bankruptcy court. This only works if you can clear the credit card debt.

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matterreply
lemmy.world

It does if you want to spend it in any meaningful way

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matterreply
lemmy.world

Yes, I understand how monero works. Yeah you'll get away with buying some groceries or whatever with it, but people who go through bankruptcy (especially who aren't rich, and are felons) have a close eye from the government on their finances. If you try to buy a house or a car or anything actually life changing with that, you're pretty likely to get caught and charged with fraud etc., unless you legitimise it, that is, launder it.

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lemmy.world

That sounds like a sketchy af bt client lol. "download up to 5x faster and get 69 more boobies per porn with our downloader!"

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You just use it to buy drugs so you don't have to use your other money for drugs. Kinda like how you use your dirty cash for filling up your car, paying for groceries, contractors... You can basically build an entire house with cash and then sell it and pay taxes and shit.

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discuss.tchncs.de

a country that has any reasonable human rights?? well unless you mean "free" in the general sense in that someone does have to pay for it even if not the prisoner...

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literature.cafe

THE SHITHOLE STATES

CHARGE PRISONERS

FOR BEING IMPRISONED

Sorry I know sometimes you need to yell to be heard through the internet tubes

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sag
lemm.ee

I know someone who did this. Now, He is in Loss.

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lemmy.world

Someone actually did this, then built a nuclear fallout shelter in their backyard in the middle of some city, but he did it all redneck and it blew up or something while building an underground generator or something and killed a 17 year old kid, he went back to jail, got out after another crypto spike, tried to cash out and immediately got sued by the family of the dead kid for wrongful death and got sued by the IRS for back taxes. It's a fucking rabbit hole of a story.

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orrkreply
lemmy.world

nah, you just claim to have used it on drugs, fits well with the go to prison for a while bit

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ericbombreply
lemmy.world

After 7 years in the US all debt falls off. So if he's in prison for 7 years, yeah it'd all go away.

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Sotuandusoreply
lemm.ee

Well, not exactly. The debt is still there, they just can't force you to pay it. Exceptions apply, like student loans, and they can probably still claim property in the case of bankruptcy or inheritance.

Also your credit score is going to tank hard.

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ericbombreply
lemmy.world

After 7 years it falls off your report, so if he's in jail for 7 years he'll have an empty credit score at the end.

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Not empty just extremely low. Low is worse then nothing. Good luck getting any credit after this. Then again, if the crypto actually grew, it may not matter. You would need at least half a million in profit to be worth all the effort of this scheme. Still only making about 70k a year at that level. Assuming you did 7 years and didn't have to pay anything like prison rent. Seems like a bad investment.

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Low is not worse than nothing with credit. Low credit means you exist. When you have no credit score everyone starts to question if you even exist. I may have personal experience with that.

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MissJinxreply
lemmy.world

So if he goes to jail for only 5 he would still owe the bank? lol

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Well it works where if it's non government debt and you don't pay for 7 years, it falls off your credit report. Of course if you had a car/home tied to it they would have taken it at that point.

But honestly at 5 years the collector will have mostly given it up and sold it to a debt collector for pennies on the dollar who call from time to time when they have nothing else to do.

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“take out credit card debt” sounds so goofy like you’re going to the debt store and getting a receipt

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lemmy.world

I still don't get how the punishment for any crime is to not have to work or pay rent... Maybe there's something to this whole life of crime thing?

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In certain U.S. states they send you an itemized bill for your own incarceration.

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