SMN: Maybe Credit Scores Shouldn't Be A Thing?

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🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Hi. In today's episode, we look at how credit scoring bureaus were originally created to track debt (among other things) in America, how they've evolved into a bad-faith tactic for the rich to exert control over poor people, and how we need to revamp the entire system so we're not using an arbitrary number to evaluate a person's worth. A human being's worth not being tied to money? Imagine that! SOURCES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18g_gX_mBTokOWkwdtN_MhG10YPxZHZ0dbDlHDALyhYw/edit?usp=sharing Support us on our PATREON: http://patreon.com/somemorenews Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/somemorenews?ref_id=9949 SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqegozpFt9hY2WJ7TDiA?si=5keGjCe5SxejFN1XkQlZ3w&dl_branch=1 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/even-more-news Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeMoreNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SomeMoreNews/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomeMoreNews/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@somemorenews Get your money's worth at https://EXPRESSVPN.com/MORENEWS to get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Cody Shoddy. I'm hungry.
0:09.0	I should have gone grocery shopping after all that grocery burning I did got a haunted
0:14.1	fridge like in the Ghostbusters. No, not that one or that one or I don't remember which
0:20.4	actually who cares. The point is I was right and normal to burn my groceries. You get it.
0:26.0	God, my stomach is so empty. Also, my wallet turns out renter's insurance doesn't cover
0:31.8	ghost appliances. It is wild how the system screws you like that.
0:36.6	What's up, puttin' putt? Did someone say system screws? Ooh, I love that EDM band.
0:42.6	Oh, dang, hey, Katie. Can I get a sandwich too?
0:45.8	Hmm, I will totally get you back.
0:47.3	Oh, let me check. Oh, sorry. No.
0:53.5	Wait, why? I've been ever so good.
0:55.9	Yeah, but your sandwich score is too low. I can't risk it.
0:59.3	Sandwich score? That sounds fake.
1:02.3	Nope, nope, totes real. It determines your sandwich worthiness.
1:07.3	And according to your report, your score is, oh, yeah. See, you got a rhino in a diaper.
1:14.3	Really looks like you just drew that.
1:16.1	Yeah, I mean, like I could have given you at least a little bite if you were at least at
1:20.0	like a squirrel holding a knife or higher, but unfortunately you're just too much of a
1:25.3	pack-ederm poop risk.
1:26.8	I am NOT a poop risk.
1:28.8	Yeah, that's what they all say.
1:30.8	Look, all you need to know is your sandwich is denied.
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