Credit card debt collection
Credit card debt is the waste stream of consumer finance. The debt collection industry ends up being sordid, for complex structural and microeconomic reasons.
Credit card debt collection Patrick McKenzie (patio11) • Aug 11th, 2023 One interesting lens for understanding how industries work is looking at their waste streams . Every industry will by nature have both a stock and a flow of byproducts from their core processes. This waste has to be dealt with (or it will, figuratively or literally, clog the pipes of the industry) and frequently has substantial residual value. Most industries develop ecosystems in miniature to collect, sift through, recycle, and dispose of their waste. These are often cobbled together from lower-scale businesses than
Explore this link on the map →related reading
- How I Got $25,000 in Debt · Life at the Margin · Natecation · Natecationnatecation.com
- Anatomy of a credit card rewards programbitsaboutmoney.com
- The Debtors' Revoltbenjaminrosshoffman.com
- Pluralistic: The credit card fee victory is a defeat (28 Mar 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net
- Credit cards as a legacy systembitsaboutmoney.com
- Anatomy of a credit card rewards programbitsaboutmoney.com
- FICO and Credit Scoring - The Tontine Coffee-Housetontinecoffeehouse.com
- Credit rating agency - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Monthly Roundup #40: March 2026 - by Zvi Mowshowitzthezvi.substack.com
- A Brief History of the Credit Card - JSTOR Dailydaily.jstor.org
- Why We're Spending So Much Moneytime.com
- Debt, Violence, and Impersonal Markets | The Anarchist Librarytheanarchistlibrary.org