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Reminder Post
4 things to keep track of💃🏾
Mental Health
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New Skills
Job Search
12/20/2023
Mostly for me, but also a bit of online accountability :)
Taylor Swift 10/26/23.
SERIOUSLY???????????? THE PRETTIEST!
Marilyn Monroe photographed by Carl Perutz for LIFE magazine, New York, NY on June 18, 1958.
While the giant bill was fake, it represented a very real accomplishment. The group raised more than $17,000, which purchased more than $1.6 million in medical debt owed by Philadelphians, according to their nonprofit partner RIP Medical Debt.
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This is a great way to undermine the system that we are trapped in
The fact that this can be done at all shows how utterly bullshit the entire system is. There was literally no reason for that medical debt to exist in the first place.
Let's say you owe a private hospital ten thousand dollars, but you have very few assets, so they're pretty sure they're never getting any of that back. There's ninety nine other people who also each owe the hospital ten thousand dollars. (It doesn't have to be a hospital; any debt can be sold this way.) The hospital has shit to do and the low chances of you paying them mean it's an unnecessary drain on their time and resources to hound you all for it. But they can get *some* money, by selling your debt to a third party.
Let's say the sell each ten thousand dollar debt for ten dollars (I'm making all these numbers up for simplicity). So a third party gives the hospital one thousand dollars, and now all hundred of you owe that third party ten thousand instead! You're in the clear with the hospital, you owe it to these guys now! And their job is to hound and harrass you for the money you owe. If one of you pays up more than a thousand dollars, you've covered their initial investment. These guys are gambling on the likelihood that enough of you can pay your debts that you make it worth the time they spend tracking you and harrassing you.
Or, instead of trying to get the money out of you, they can just... decide you don't owe them. Why not? They own the debt. They can fork out a thousand bucks, buy a million in debt, and forgive it. That's what these guys did. (This is also a favourite move of John Oliver; if you ever see headlines about John Oliver forgiving debt, this is what he's doing). A small payment can take a massive weight off the shoulders of a lot of struggling people.
Again, I made up the numbers to simplify the math. But this is how the process works.
seventeen thousand dollars to buy SIXTEEN MILLION DOLLARS OF DEBT. Absolutely FUCKED at how cheap our misery and servitude is.
thing is, the debt companies *hate* this, because it means that it gives hope to people saddled with unimaginable debt that someone will come along and buy that debt and cancel it. So more people don't pay their debts, and they lose money. Debt buying companies do their *damnedest* to keep people like these philadelphhians and john oliver from doing exactly this.
you can do this too! Follow OP's link to https://ripmedicaldebt.org/ and donate whatever you can. For every $1 you donate, they buy $100 of debt and cancel it. I donate $10 each month just to get that amazing email that says I've been personally responsible for cancelling $1000 of medical debt - it's genuinely the best $10 I spend each month 😊
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Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe on the set of 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑰𝒕 𝑯𝒐𝒕 (1959).
Anna May Wong portrait for Film Weekly in January 1932.
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Top five gowns of 2023 as voted by my followers: Tran Hung fall 2023 ready to wear in fourth place
i hate how they market alexa as a ‘member of the family’ like that’s SO fucking blatantly insidious and terrifying also if i wanted an untrustworthy/cold/emotionless machine in my life i’d just talk to my fuckin father
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"'fast-paced high-energy environment' just say it's toxic"
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Marisa Berenson in a short silk georgette dinner dress. By Oscar de la Renta (Werner fabric). Cartier jewelry, David Evins shoes, feather boa, Madcaps for Saint Laurent Rive Gauche. Carita Hairdressing.
Marisa Berenson dans une courte robe de dîner en soie georgette. Par Oscar de la Renta (tissu Werner). Bijoux Cartier, chaussures David Evins, boa en plumes, Madcaps pour Saint Laurent Rive Gauche. Coiffure Carita.
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Top five gowns of 2023 as voted by my followers: Vivienne Westwood bridal couture 2023 in fifth place
Ewa Aulin for Hola magazine, 1971