My Debt Your Downfall
Language: en
Coming back to this exact moment—this familiar, jagged edge of my life—the first thing I decided was that I would not spend another second drowning in debt to pay for my mother’s cancer treatment. In my previous life, that choice cost me everything. I had mentioned, perhaps too loudly, that I’d managed to scrape together nearly half a million dollars in savings. That was all it took for the new intern to mark me. She’d used a predatory digital "tethering" exploit—a glitch in the banking app she’d bragged about—to link our accounts. In a heartbeat, my life savings evaporated. My balance hit…