Reviews
Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition by Debt Collective
wchereads's review
5.0
important, eye-opening, timely, and essential. I enjoyed reading this greatly even if what I was learning about was frustrating and enraging. I found the book very accessible and engaging.
brennenpeterson's review against another edition
5.0
GOD DAMN, this goes hard. Debt can be such a useful tool, but the good kind of debt isn’t available to most people often enough. Investors, businesses, “entrepreneurs” and other capital owners can use debt to generate great wealth. For everyone else it is just a predatory aspect of the current uber-capitalist system we have. Nobody should be going into unwanted debt because of medical, educational, housing, or imprisonment reasons.
The creation of the credit score is one of the most harmful things American economics has created. The book explains exactly how greedy the Financial and Technology sectors really are. Some terrifying stuff. It’s arguably more important to ones well being to truly understand our current financial environment and how to not get fucked, than anything else discussed today in modern politics.
With the Supreme Courts ruling on Student Debt forgiveness coming within the next week, the Biden Administration resuming Student loan interest starting 60 days after that, and Student loan payments starting back in October, people with student loan debt have an opportunity to hold the economy hostage and force Congress to do something about so much of people’s predatory, unnecessary debt.
The creation of the credit score is one of the most harmful things American economics has created. The book explains exactly how greedy the Financial and Technology sectors really are. Some terrifying stuff. It’s arguably more important to ones well being to truly understand our current financial environment and how to not get fucked, than anything else discussed today in modern politics.
With the Supreme Courts ruling on Student Debt forgiveness coming within the next week, the Biden Administration resuming Student loan interest starting 60 days after that, and Student loan payments starting back in October, people with student loan debt have an opportunity to hold the economy hostage and force Congress to do something about so much of people’s predatory, unnecessary debt.
trippalli's review
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
An amazing summary of what's wrong with our financial system in the United States, the debt system, how it's been misused the politics and the banking. It really lays it out in a way that makes sense. Definitely an informative book. That is a foundation which I'll use to understand further reading
roguemultiverse's review
5.0
I didn’t know debt unions were even a thing before I read this. In ways it’s a hard book because of the problems with debt. But in ways it’s comforting and inspiring the fact debtors aren’t alone and en masse can use debt as leverage.
justabookholic's review against another edition
4.0
"What we are facing is not a crisis of conscience or of good judgment. Instead, we are facing an unprecedented economic emergency rooted in centuries of racist, colonialist, and capitalist exploitation and intensified by decades of rapacious financialization and new technologies of extraction."
zombiezami's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Classism and Gaslighting
Moderate: Sexism, Slavery, Genocide, Medical content, Police brutality, Racism, Colonisation, and Death
Minor: Drug abuse, Cancer, Alcoholism, Suicide, Deportation, Drug use, Transphobia, War, Addiction, Ableism, and Chronic illness
Surveillance, Incarceration