The vast majority of America's debt collection targets $500-2,000 credit card debts. It is a filthy business, operated by lawless firms who hire unskilled workers drawn from the same economic background as their targets, who routinely and grotesquely

The vast majority of America's debt collection targets $500-2,000 credit card debts. It is a filthy business, operated by lawless firms who hire unskilled workers drawn from the same economic background as their targets, who routinely and grotesquely flout the law.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @_e_pf_ · Aug 12, 2023

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this thread is brilliant. Lumpen proletarian debt collectors as the nexus of a lot: financial capitalism's colonization of our life-world / the law as operating in exception + violence just beneath it / difficulty in building even inter-class solidarity within cap, etc. etc.

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