• Infamousblt [any]
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    1 year ago

    Can we start a debt buying cooperative? I buy your debt and you buy my debt and together we all make it go away

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      One of the better things that came out of the Occupy movement in '11 was a rolling jubilee movement that raised money to buy up medical debt then tear it up. It's been done before. It mights till be happening, let me look.

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/12/occupy-wall-street-activists-15m-personal-debt

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_Debt

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/15/occupy-rolling-jubilee-debt-forgiveness