Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1,303 for Tuesday, the 25th of November 2025.

I'm your host, Luke, joined today by Firas and Nate.

And today we're going to be talking to you all about how the youth are drowning in debt.

We're then going to talk about the growing tensions between China and Japan.

And then Nate is going to explain to us how to, how he single-handedly created the master plan for saving British democracy.

Oh yes.

Which we're very much looking forward to.

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Alright then, well, Firas. So, everything that we seem to see today involves placing more and more burdens on the youth

with the old essentially using them as cash cows. Usury is responsible for a big chunk of this.

And today I'm going to talk about a specific aspect of usury, the buy now, pay later business model.

And here we have Paris Hilton promoting this through a company called Clarna, which is one of the biggest providers in this field.

And she will inform you how to buy a nice suit for your very ugly dog.

I don't know why you'd have a...

The people's priorities.

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