• Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    23·
    7 days ago

    At that point why not just declare bankruptcy? If he was couch surfing then he had no assets to lose. Sure bankruptcy fucks your credit for a while but it’s better than having nothing and still having your wage garnished. That’s literally the situation that bankruptcy exists for. If you somehow get yourself in a truely irrecoverable amount of debt then it’s your get out of jail relatively free card.

      • voracitude@lemmy.world
        7·
        7 days ago

        Also half of the loans were government Covid aid that he applied for even though he wasn’t eligible

        Ahh, so he did a bunch of fraud. The reason the government was writing blank cheques was because people were dying in the millions and businesses were failing left and right. He’s lucky he’s not in prison.

        I’m glad he’s doing better now, but I can’t help but think of the people who needed that money and might not have gotten it in time (or maybe at all) because of what he did. Does he ever think about that, do you know?

          • voracitude@lemmy.world
            3·
            6 days ago

            I’m really glad that he’s aware of the moral implications of what he did.

            Doesn’t sound like you are though. I mean, you just admitted he committed fraud in order to appropriate money meant for people who actually needed it, and now:

            • you want to justify it by saying “clearly the government wasn’t holding back assistance to anyone at the time” as though it being an honour system at the time made what he did okay;
            • you’re pulling that after you first tried to paper over that they weren’t just any old loans he took out; in addition to which
            • you want to try and paint me as the bad guy.

            You serious, dude? You’re aware that I didn’t commit fraud during the pandemic, right? And it wasn’t hard either, I just didn’t apply for relief I wasn’t eligible for. You’re aware he wasn’t scamming a bank, he was scamming people in need?

            It’s okay to make mistakes, but he is lucky he’s not in prison, and if he can own what he did like an adult then so can you.