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[โ€“] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The thing is you're forgetting who are good borrowers and who are bad borrowers. A person with a low income with a precarious job will be a very bad borrower, and imposing a higher interest rate on them on top of that is just the final nail in the coffin. We generally believe universal healthcare is good, and we don't want to discriminate "good health" and "bad health" people and make unhealthy people pay more, do we?

[โ€“] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

imposing a higher interest rate on them on top of that is just the final nail in the coffin.

That's the only way to justify loaning to people like that at all, given how much more often they default (and the lender never gets repaid at all). If lenders were forced to give the same interest rate to everyone, that would cause them not to lend to "A person with a low income with a precarious job" at all.