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by Nextgrid 1253 days ago
> realistically it's no different than a credit card

That's the point, people already have perfectly functional credit cards. How is BNPL so much better that it will enough profits to provide the astronomical returns VCs desire?

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Actually they don't. The Harvard economist quoted in the article states that most BNPL users don't have or don't use a credit card.