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When financial responsibility backfires in credit-based systems

I make decent money but have no credit history because I've always paid cash, and now I can't get approved for an apartment or car loan and feel like I'm being punished for being responsible.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The paradox of exclusion through prudence reveals how institutional systems can penalize the very behaviors they claim to reward.

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