Are We All Pretending To Have Money? | The Buy Now, Pay Later Scam

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In our July video essay, Chelsea dives into American debt culture, and how our economy makes it easier to pretend to be rich than to actually build wealth.

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00:00 Intro
03:15 Ad break
10:58 The evolution of credit
18:45 The epidemic of invisible debt
30:16 Credit card points and the meaningless of status
40:40 How we all got addicted to dopamine
47:36 The myth of American abundance

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