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by mecha_ghidorah 1041 days ago
> Using a credit card responsibly is a good way to help build your credit

Not where I'm from and honestly I've always kind of thought that was insane. If I were a money lender and two people came to me, with the same income and expenses, and one of them regularly used a credit card and one didn't I personally would expect the one who didn't use a credit card to be more fiscally responsible.

Sure credit cards are commonly used enough that I would ding the person with one much just because they used one, but it baffles me to think that "avoids using credit and lives entirely within their means" somehow makes you considered less likely to pay off a debt in the US. It seems so backwards