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Cake day: September 16th, 2023

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  • I do because in general one of the following scenarios happen:

    1. A person is on the other side and when they notice the call went through they say hello (at which point I always reply regaedless of being scam/unexpected call/etc)
    2. A robot is on the other side and automatically starts blabbering gibberish (usually it is instant hang-up when I hear this)
    3. A robot is on the other side and waits for a signal, hanging up in around 3-5 seconds (since I was silent)

    But to be fair if it was ever a human in scenario 3 and I missed an important call, I wouldn’t know (however I don’t think that ever happened)

    Also, the burden of initiating conversation should be on the active caller side, not on the passice receiver

    And lastly, I heard thar if you answer the robots, your number gets flagged as real (instead of other robot), making the scammers call you more often (I’m agnostic in regards to this statement)









  • You (and the other guy that replied) are indeed thinking of usury (which is a very evil thing, even frowned upon by most religions), which is the situation of lending assets to for the sake of profit

    Debt on the other hand is a more general concept, did you ever borrow a pen from another person? While you were writing you were in debt for that pen (but this is a silly example that can be disregarded)

    Did your parents take care of you as a child? In most cultures, thar means you’re in debt and owe them care when they get old (though I understand that this varies from culture to culture, but the idea is there anyway) If you are friendly to your neighbors and they invite you home to dinner several times, you are also expected to pay back the favor sometime down the road, this is another form of debt

    To sum it up, debt is much more intrinsic to our behavior as humans than we usually think, even though “formal debt” might not be