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I thought this actually sounded reasonable, until I got to employment.
Like, both of the ones before might not be about loans directly, but they’re about whether you’ll be able to pay your bills. It makes sense for the companies to change their offer if they don’t believe you’ll be able to pay them. Rent and postpaid plans are both about getting something now and paying for it later, so it imo makes sense that they first evaluate whether you’re likely able to do so.
Some businesses and industries consider it equivalent to “trustworthiness” and they are afraid that you will steal from them or betray them somehow if you have low credit score. Whether there’s any truth to that is irrelevant, that is how they feel about it. Most of the time they are not allowed to say that directly, but in most states it is entirely the employer’s decision whether or not to hire you with little to no regulation or labor market protections and they never have to tell anyone why or why not, so even if you felt like it might have been discrimination it’s essentially unenforceable.
The US credit system affects everything, regardless of what you can get some dumbass US conservative to tell you.
It’s checked EVERYWHERE you’re not simply handing cash (or cash equivalent like a check that doesn’t bounce) over. Car purchases, house rentals, employment, loans, even car or hotel rentals! It’s EVERYWHERE, yet dumbass US citizens only throw shade at China…
We’re already a captured, brainless society, and that’s before Trump… The next generation is truly fucked, and that’s without the migration/water/food wars that WILL happen…
I thought this actually sounded reasonable, until I got to employment.
Like, both of the ones before might not be about loans directly, but they’re about whether you’ll be able to pay your bills. It makes sense for the companies to change their offer if they don’t believe you’ll be able to pay them. Rent and postpaid plans are both about getting something now and paying for it later, so it imo makes sense that they first evaluate whether you’re likely able to do so.
But I don’t see how that applies to employment…
Some businesses and industries consider it equivalent to “trustworthiness” and they are afraid that you will steal from them or betray them somehow if you have low credit score. Whether there’s any truth to that is irrelevant, that is how they feel about it. Most of the time they are not allowed to say that directly, but in most states it is entirely the employer’s decision whether or not to hire you with little to no regulation or labor market protections and they never have to tell anyone why or why not, so even if you felt like it might have been discrimination it’s essentially unenforceable.
The US credit system affects everything, regardless of what you can get some dumbass US conservative to tell you.
It’s checked EVERYWHERE you’re not simply handing cash (or cash equivalent like a check that doesn’t bounce) over. Car purchases, house rentals, employment, loans, even car or hotel rentals! It’s EVERYWHERE, yet dumbass US citizens only throw shade at China…
We’re already a captured, brainless society, and that’s before Trump… The next generation is truly fucked, and that’s without the migration/water/food wars that WILL happen…