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People today increasingly use credit cards to make monthly purchases. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

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In
this
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 modern world, people are not interested
for
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a
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cash
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 shopping , they prefer to use
credit
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 cards for routine shoppings.
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, I think that the advantages of
credit
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 cards are more than using
cash
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. It
have
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 more advantages and fewer drawbacks. On the one hand, every individual
are
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 not carrying huge
cash
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 in their pockets
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 people are used bank cards for their
shoppings
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shopping
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, that gives them multiple choices for shopping.
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mostly websites of online shopping are preferred to digital mode of payment
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 of
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raditional way.
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 credits cards give comfort and luxurious way to live a life with extra benefits in terms of
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cash back
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cashback
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 facilities, loyalty points and many more.
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 people
are prefer
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u
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se
credit
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 cards for their
shoppings
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shopping
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.
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, the main drawback of plastic
money
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 is it may hack and people may
lost
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 huge
of
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money
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 in a single minute. Few
year
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 back in 2015, in India. There was a gang arrested who used to do scam those people
wo
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who
 have bank cards, they
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mislead
misleaded
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 the people, got their personal data and store their
money
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 by online.
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, another disadvantage is using plastic cards for shopping its means paying extra
money
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, because do expensive shopping by
credit
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 card and amount spread into monthly
installments
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 and on that
installment
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their
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 is apply some interest rate.
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 using a
credit
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 card is more expensive than hard
cash
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. To conclude, nowadays people use
credit
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 cards for their payments and that them luxury
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 people have to more than
cash
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. I think, in
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 modern world people want up garden their
life style
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lifestyle
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 for
this
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up gradation
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 people us credits cards
instead
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 of
cash
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 and
also
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getting
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 other benefits of it.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Cashless transactions
  • Financial footprint
  • Interest rates
  • Credit score
  • Consumerism
  • Debt accumulation
  • Expenditure tracking
  • Fraudulent activities
  • Overspending
  • Purchase protection
  • Revolving credit
  • Creditworthiness
  • Impulse buying
  • Secured credit card
  • Unsecured credit card
  • Spending limit
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