^legit

You can just toss it afterward. :)

I’m sure he would have terms. And probably it would be okay.
I also think that people aren’t caught up in idea that you have to pay it back. That’s how loans work, and for most people that means working to earn the money.
This issue is, than he is holding the loan *and* the job. There’s no options. If I work somewhere that treats me poorly or misuses my skills or maybe I just hate it, I can move to a different organization. Or maybe I become a very valuable asset and earn the organization an increasing amount of money. And maybe the employer, who is making interest off my loan and money on my labor is not interested in giving me a raise appropriate to my contribution and there’s nothing I can do about it because there’s nowhere else to work on Mars and I am indentured until the loan is paid.

I don’t know if it works on geese, but chickens will back down pretty quickly if you try to grab them. Attacks make them aggressive but they seem to loose their spine when faced with hands that grab.

I think the hang up is that he is offering the loans and controls the available jobs on Mars.
If I get a loan from Bank of America, I have a lot of work options not controlled by Bank of America to earn the money to pay it back.

That quiet too. There’s something so surreal about it.

Nope. Not really

I really hope it is not real, because it sounds so hyperbolic, but I feel like I’ve talked to real live people who really believe and act on some of things. So I can’t discount it as not real and it makes me sad— not just for the family that suffered along side but for the fear and anxiety that the people suffering like this right now are experiencing.

^true story. Highly recommend you watch it.