When Axton Betz-Hamilton set up her first utility bill at college, she soon realized something was very, very wrong.
It turned out she’d been a victim of identity theft—and it had destroyed her credit rating.
In 2001, when she was a 19-year-old student, Betz-Hamilton’s new utility provider demanded a $100 security deposit to turn on her service, citing her credit score.
“I thought it was because I didn’t have enough credit,” she told Fortune. But when a copy of her credit report turned up in her mailbox six weeks later, she learned the opposite was true.
So now the youth are being screwed over by their own parents. Cool. Coolcoolcoolcoolcool.
Is this another unprecedented, once in a millennia event too? Just like the previous five or six atrocities?
Anyone else want to fuck up the zoomers while we’re at it?
I mean this has been going on since at least the 90’s.
Don’t remind me.
The 90’s were pretty wild in terms of what was considered “normal” or “okay”.