Hi, I don't really agree. I'm in Europe and I use the credit card to pay off my expenses, so I don't pay interest on them. The main advantage of using the credit card is that you can pay later in the month, rather than paying everything at the time.It's always surprising to me how Americans seem to have access to money out of nowhere. In European countries, you'd never be given any sort of credit if you don't have a very stable, full-time income, and more often than not, you'd be rejected anyway!
I don't know a single person in my life who owns a credit card. For us in Europe, you spend the money you have; you don't borrow money you don't have. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing I have debt to pay or that I'm using an expensive phone, Netflix subscription, or designer clothes while swimming in debt. Seriously, how can you do that? I wouldn't even go out to restaurants or bars until I was sure my debt was repaid.
Unless it's absolutely necessary, I'd never take out a loan, especially for something non-essential like a new phone, a vacation, or a car. I'd buy the cheapest phone or car in the market that I could afford with my own money.
Now I understand why doing business in the US is like the ultimate paradise: people spend money they don't even have. Indeed, it makes me laugh when people read books by Robert Kiyosaki explaining debts and similar concepts. For the majority of Europeans, using debt is an alien concept and it'a also funny to see how a post like this is necessary... like... really? do you really need someone to tell you the smartest thing to do is to repay the high-interest debt that you made for stupid things such as a car?
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