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"Buy Now, Pay Later" programs also want to be embedded into online storefronts. People are much more likely
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to accept higher interest rates or take on the debt at all the closer the offer is made to "the point of sale." This requires not only business deals but a non-trivial amount of code.
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## Your Goal
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Never make a program for a "Buy Now, Pay Later" company.
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The only reason they would be using that term would be to dodge regulations
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set up to protect both parties in the agreement.
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set up to protect both parties in the arrangement.
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"Buy Now, Pay Later" is just another word for debt. If you make a program that
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enables desperate people go deeper and deeper into debt to enrich yourself
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you are a bad person.
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I put this "project" here to tell you that building software is not
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I put this here to tell you that building software is not
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a neutral act. You need to critically consider how what you decide to spend
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your time on will affect the world around you.
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which are more than happy to offer predatory loans to the desperate and short-sighted. Their existence makes the
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world a worse place. They also could not exist without the efforts of people who write software.
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The next project will be a real one.
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But loans are not *intrinsically* a bad thing. What makes a loan bad comes down to the terms of the
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loan and the circumstances under which it is taken out.
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## Your Goal
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Make a program to track the debts owed by
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## Future Goals
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