It’s like the government just stopped caring to protect us at all. Every regulatory system has been broken. You are being sold carcinogens every day and there is no help coming. Have a nice day!
Which is one of the many reasons why advertising should be illegal with very few exceptions.
Next they will have Pizza Mortgages and their logical counterpart, the Reverse Pizza Mortgage.
Did anybody at all read the article?
666 people are enrolled in a trial system so that their pizza debts are collected from their estate when they die.
No interest rate or fees.
So…
Basically free pizza for life. It’s not predatory, And it’s insane to me that people post articles, even in a comment, without reading them. Because if you had read the article “predatory” would be the furthest thing for your mind. It’s just a gimmick promotion to increase sales
I definitely wish I was one of those 666 people
Shit, if everyone signs up for that what’s to stop them from going bankrupt before you have to pay? Also, what stops people from altering the will after the fact?
You know your life has gone to shit when you have to finance a pizza.
But most importantly, whichever corporate honchos thought preying on the ultra-poor was a decent thing to do and authorized this scheme should know they’re worthless human beings.
Probably related to the high prices of delivery services. Maybe people wouldn’t think about financing a pizza if the cost wasn’t tripled by delivery.
I don’t use any delivery service, and I can drive 5 minutes over to Little Caesar’s and get a pizza for about $6, or I can go to Pizza Hut and pick up a better pizza for about $10. But I hear that other people pay vastly higher prices for their unhealthy fast food when they use delivery services.
Most pizza places offer free delivery. Don’t use fucking Uber Eats to order a pizza.
uh, you should check your receipt. at least in my area, no pizza is delivered for free. it’s always cheaper to go pick it up.
My wife and I were talking about this earlier. Boomers who managed to save cash were able to put that money into fixed income assets at incredibly high interest rates during the eighties. A 5 year CD in 1984 paid 12%, at renewal in 1989 it was, 9%, then 6.5% at the next renewal in 1994. In 1999 rates started their race to the bottom but stocks skyrocketed. So if you amassed cash in the eighties and nineties through fixed income, you had a great position to capitalize on the dot com boom, buy cheap during its crash, buy cheap real estate after the 2008 financial crash, capitalize on the market rebound, etc. All mostly for free because of timing.
All easy decisions, in hindsight. In reality quite a few missed out completely on all of those or lost significantly. It’s all just some sort of gambling in a casino. I’m sure in hindsight it will be clear which opportunities you missed out on in your time. The big difference is being able to save to start off with, because wages were relatively a lot higher for simple jobs than they are now.
That’s why I started by highlighting the fixed income stuff like five year CDs. I remember my mother and grandmother putting their money in those and bonds and how well it served them into retirement. Those weren’t hindsight. Back then, working families put their money in savings. Sure there were Wall Street cocaine yuppies making insane money but, at least in my household, that was just the stuff of movies.
I’m not fully disagreeing with you. I just think both aspects made a difference. Higher wages and a feasible way to save your money without having to partake in the casino was key. I look at millennials and zoomers and I see none of that. Low wages, higher cost, and the only way to save for retirement is by betting everything you’ve got on a system that’s heavily rigged against you as a retail investor. As Gen-X at least we had the chance to make our own wealth by creating an entire new industry. My younger siblings and my children would have had none of that, if I had siblings or children. /Rant
EDIT: The eternal battle with autocorrect
I grabbed 10k of them for myself and my partner
Casually dropping 20k isn’t in 95% of people’s ability.
Domino’s barely even puts sauce on the fucking pizza anymore. Fuck the economy.
Costco pizza is the best. I just wish they had more variety.
Also I wish I could just order on my phone and then pick up when I’m done shopping, rather than having to queue for 15 minutes to order and then wait another 15 while they cook it.
Costco pizza is the best.
Man, idk what kind of pizza options you have in your area, but I’m sorry that none of them are good.
“You will own nothing and you will be happy about it.” -1100 c.e. The Feudal System
Feudal peasants actually got a decent amount of time off, because the landlords understood that they had to keep the masses happy. Medieval peasants had an average of like four months of vacation time a year. Basically, the ruling class knew that the only thing stopping the peasants from marching up to the castle with pitchforks was the peasants’ own sense of civility.
