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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Actually yes.

And this kind of thing actually happens occasionally with discharged national debts or medical debts for example.

https://www.reuters.com/article/africa-debt-idUSL5N11L42V20150916/

But the systems still in place tend to just cause debts to rise again.