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Laleh Khalili
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Pretty harrowing piece about how micro-loans conveniently available via mobile apps (lauded as the second coming of progress by some people) are actually drowning Kenyans in debt. 1/
bostonreview.net/class-inequali…
For some, these mobile apps are supposed to take the place of real infrastructures. Well they don't. They are a one-way route to accumulating debt. 2/
And micro-finance is just a fancy name for "debt" and for ensnaring people into the capitalist system of finance, of banking, of tying people's lives to a regime of property and debt that is not about mutuality or reciprocity. 3/
Both its "cute" size that makes it sound safe ("micro") and its convenience (mobile apps) only facilitate this. End/
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