20 Reasons It Really Sucks To Be Poor Right Now

1. Financial Services Exploit The Poor

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If you work in financial services, you certainly don’t need any tips from outsiders on how to exploit the poor, in fact you guys probably wrote the book on how to treat people with no money as a sales opportunity. That whole ‘Toxic Loans’ thing you had going a few years back? Classic.

Your menu-driven telephone services are impossible to navigate, you like to confuse the elderly (and everyone else) with your online systems and when it comes to the hard sell, you make bailiffs look sympathetic. You guys should rule the world….oh, wait, you do. 

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'