Bankruptcy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver details why people file for bankruptcy, how needlessly difficult the process can be, and the ways we can better serve people struggling with debt.
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[@clintUofR08]

Bankruptcy attorney here: Everything in this video is 100% accurate. The unholy push from attorneys to make money in Chapter 13's is real, takes advantage of the most vulnerable, and has a racial bias. If you walk into a Chapter 7 hearing room and then a Chapter 13 hearing room, like I have thousands of times, the racial divide is obvious.

[@antoinefdu]

I swear this show has done a million times more to keep me out of America than any wall ever could.

[@akshaysasindran8281]

The fact that the sequel to Now You See Me wasn't named Now You Don't has bothered me for years, John.

[@thesammysignal]

"When things are designed to become harder for everyone, for the rich they just become a bit more expensive, and for the poor they become basically impossible".

[@JjMmGg35]

My 4 year old cousin was in the hospital for one month battling leukemia before he passed away. Just one month of bills forced my Aunt and Uncle into bankruptcy.

[@rebruisinginart2419]

Not being able to afford bankruptcy is somehow the most Ameican thing I've ever heard.

[@prasoongupta12]

Ah my favourite weekly depression session.

[@HNO5683]

Somehow we managed to laugh our way through our credit counseling courses. We filled bankruptcy after I had a stroke at 22 due to an unknown genetic condition. I will be disabled for the rest of my life and the course kept talking to us like we were idiots with a shopping problem versus two people experiencing something life changing and traumatic just trying to keep from becoming homeless. It was pretty demeaning.

[@rowlzroyce2913]

As long as lobbying is legal, John will always have content. Imagine if legislation was passed based on what’s best for the people instead of who paid to have it pushed.

[@CraftedNewsTV]

Having to go bankrupt because your child dies of a lethal disease.

[@Malva597]

"See, that was your problem, you got to stop having children with expensive and deadly medical conditions. That kind of reckless behaviour will lead you to debt."

[@bloodyneptune]

I actually had to go bankrupt once, and the stigma around it is so insane my dad said he "didn't know who taught you that was an OK option" meaning he taught me better than that. It took a lot of restraint not to answer "i got the number from

[@samnithish]

This show is genuinely one of the reasons why I look forward to Mondays.

[@lazylion420]

watch John Oliver long enough and you'll realize that virtually every problem we have boils down to uncontrollable human greed, which is SO entrenched and deeply corrupted in our government, that nothing will ever be done about it until it's probably too late... this show is depressing af yo

[@jesseward3438]

April 2020 "I know its weird having this void background but due to the Covid-19 pandemic we have been forced to move out of our studio"

[@ellispedersen4192]

The shark calling out Kevin O'Leary for his bad message about bankruptcy made me smile. He knows better.

[@TheRhetoricGamer]

My skin crawls when I see rich people/companies that tanked the economy telling poor people that

[@KennyG881]

"The only way to get away from your student loan debt is to die."

[@jazwhoaskedforthis]

Corporations and the upper class have squeezed the lower class almost to death. Trapping you in debt forever turns you into passive income for them. Student loans getting away with being predatory and colleges being so outrageously expensive is trash. This level of greed is criminal

[@ToniGlick]

When I got married to a Canadian, I discovered my credit history had not traveled with me to Canada. Clean slate! For awhile, student loan creditors were calling me to threaten lawsuits but since it would cost more than my loans value to pursue, that's not gonna happen.