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[–] whalebiologist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

I worked as a student loan debt collector over covid, all the old school collectors there would wax nostalgic for the times they could call peoples family members and shake people down; the CFPB was single handedly keeping debt collectors defanged and declawed.