Fuck em, fuck the credit score

I mean, you do you, but my mother took the same approach and she can't buy a car, gets routinely denied for apartments, and generally has zero trust with any bank. You don't have to like the system, but the only person you hurt by fighting against it is yourself.

It’s not a bad strategy if used sparingly. Derogatory notes fall off your credit report after 7 years.
I strategically defaulted a CC in early adulthood and by the time I needed a mortgage was back in the 800s.
Like @deegeese@sopuli.xyz says, I fairly strategic about it. It's mostly medical debt that can't even go on the credit report anymore and maybe a store credit card or 2 that was used to replace the AC. I also generally make sure to pay the bills to banks that are known to actually take people to court e.g. Capital One
Definitely the best country in the world.

It's my goal to reach a credit score of 1! That's how you win, I think.

Credit score golf.
- The trick is to hold credit using one identity, and have all the bills you won't pay tied to another.

I dont pay medical bills that dont get passed to me at the hospital. I recently paid for an ER visit and ambulance ride, only to be sent a collection for the same exact bill 2 months later.

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I've learned the longer you wait, and more times your debt is sold, the more likely it is whoever is trying to collect can't produce legal proof.

Why don't you want to pay your bills?

It's mostly medical debt, fuck the healthcare industry
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You're assuming a whole hell of a lot, odds are good they fucking can't!
You're also assuming that the debt is valid, which is often not the case with medical debt: Shit gets billed wrong, patients may not even receive notice, and by the time it gets to the collection agency, they may not be in a position to contest it.
Glad you're lucky enough that this has never been a problem though, congratulations on your good fortune. You may fancy yourself a self made success, but that is an illusion: Unless you're independently wealthy (perhaps, even if you are), you're only one bad day away from joining those people.
Never forget that.
- You sure are making a lot of assumptions.
Because i lost my job last year and was living on $300 a week weeknight bartending. I can pay for rent and groceries or i can pay for my student loans and credit card debt.
I hope you never find yourself in a position where you jave to choose, because it's a living hell
- Started a company. Gross income $1200 each of 2 years. I hear ya.
People want things for free without consequence
- People deserve a comfortable life without being under the yoke of some bill collectors.
- Yea like healthcare, how horrible of me to want a basic human need to live to be free