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My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent
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It's in canada also. My gf had to pay a rental payment fee for the system they use. Same with enwin utilities in ontario. They just installed a new tax for no reason.
Oh it's for a reason, and that reason is "capitalism".
Their investors want not just profits but profit growth. So companies have to come up with new avenues of extracting money from their consumers. It's a fundamental feature of the capitalist system.
And so long as they have private ownership over these things, there is about jack all we can do to stop them.