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

#people #credit #cards #purchases #outweigh
The
amount
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 of people who utilises
credit
 cards
to
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for
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 their monthly expenditures increased. In my point of view
disadvantages
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the disadvantages
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outweighs
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advantages
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the advantages
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.
This
 essay will include several reasons to support
this
 opinion. For
people
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,people
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 it is hard to take over the things which
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do
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is
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it
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 does not belong to
him
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them
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. When
customer
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a customer
the customer
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 of the
bank
get
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gets
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 a
credit
card
 he may think that
bank
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the bank
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 giving him
a
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free
money
 and he goes to spend all of them. Misunderstanding
this
 simple concept is that you do not get free
money
 anywhere if there
is
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are
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 some options
then
 know It will not
last
 long.
Bank
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The bank
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 giving
customer
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a customer
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credit
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a credit
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card
 approves his solvent and logically
this
 means that
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the user
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user
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use
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 of
credit
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a credit
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card
 has to pay back what he spent.
Otherwise
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 if he is not capable to do it
bank
 just
do
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does
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 not give him
credit
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a credit
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card
.
Consequently
 not recognising
this
 plain idea leads to certain issues.
First
 and foremost it is illusion. When
individual
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an individual
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have
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has
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unlimited
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an unlimited
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 amount of
money
 that can
be expend
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be expended
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to
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on
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 anything it may bring
illusion
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an illusion
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 which will give him
feeling
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the feeling
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 that everything will be ok and all
this
money
 that he has to pay back disappear in some magical way. He starts buying whatever he wants but he overlooks that
in
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at
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 the end of the month there will be a bill which must be repaid.
Moreover
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,Moreover
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bank
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banks
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 can add require more
money
 than they actually provide you,
for
instance
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,instance
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 it could be caused by percentages. In
conclusion
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 I want to say that every person should spend only
those
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the
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 amount of
money
 that he actually has in the
bank
 account.
Therefore
 at least you will not have debts which makes you
free
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a free
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 person to compare with the one who lives in the “illusion”
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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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