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Hear about how much debt everyone in the US has all the time, curious about some of your stories!

My bad debt is 10k left on a school loan from a for profit school that is now out of business.

Only other debt is house.

So how are you all doing with debt management?

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago

None? A lot? The concept of debt is confusing to me because there's a moral way to look at it and a legal way. Have I ever asked for a loan or favor I later didn't pay for? No, I owe nobody anything. But legally, you have economic principles, like unnecessary medical expenses or ones which you didn't know an action of your were accumulate, which are only debts in the sense that the law says so. I owe medical providers something like a few thousand dollars (which my legally recognized debt can be rounded down to) for things like this and this, and an online course I take decided to say I owe them without telling me, though they haven't dropped me (yet).