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minus-squaremaniclucky@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down1·9 months agoI mean, we weren’t forced into it. We were just told we’d be homeless (or some other stand in for poverty) if we didn’t. Now a lot of people with loans are in poverty because of them. We weren’t forced into them is only technically true.
minus-squarecollegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·9 months agoCoerced and/or manipulated
minus-squaremaniclucky@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down2·edit-29 months agoDuress is also a good word. “Sign this loan or you’ll be sad and poor forever”.
I mean, we weren’t forced into it. We were just told we’d be homeless (or some other stand in for poverty) if we didn’t.
Now a lot of people with loans are in poverty because of them. We weren’t forced into them is only technically true.
Coerced and/or manipulated
Duress is also a good word. “Sign this loan or you’ll be sad and poor forever”.