• primrosepathspeedrun@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    hey imagine if ALL this stuff were like this, and all the stuff our systems of organization did were stuff like this.

    that would be pretty cool, right? like, no offensive wars, no weird syphilis shit, no trying to find the lethal dose of LSD my spiking random dudes’ drinks.

    just, like, being cool and making things better and building shit. wouldn’t that be great?

  • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s long overdue. Seems like a common sense thing but it’s different than the typical type of legislation so it seems unexpected.

    My mom told me about her bank “it’s impossible to get anyone on the phone anymore” and I didn’t believe it. I tried myself and wow, she was right. The fraud department, sure . Just basic customer service, though, they’d take you in circles with their robot phone menu, make you repeatedly verify your information, then just hang up on you. Pretty wild that’s how a major bank can get away with treating their customers.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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      2 years ago

      Major bank is probably the problem. I’ve never had issues contacting a live person at our credit union, nor with any customer service at all, from resolving card issues to working with us to make a loan doable.

      • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Credit Unions are one of the easiest examples of how socialism works in the best interest of the general public. There is a reason that they provide great customer service, and it is because they are not run by malicious capitalists.

        https://creditunions.org/

        A credit union is a financial cooperative, owned and controlled by the people who use its services. Credit unions call their owners “members.” That means that all of the money they make goes back to you, the members. It’s your money to begin with, and it’s pooled with the resources of all other credit union members.

        Credit unions don’t have any outside stockholders. As non-profit organizations, credit unions are exempt from certain tax requirements. All of the money that’s deposited in accounts, all of the interest collected on our loans, every dollar that comes into a credit union stays with the credit union. That money is used to keep loan rates low and savings rates of return high.