Churn credit cards = constantly open and close new credit cards for the sign up bonuses but in a careful way that doesn't crash your credit score

So I've met quite a few people in tech who do this and they're literally all hardcore neoliberals. They hate any type of welfare for new immigrants, refugees, and the unemployed. They despise unions and think it's for lazy people. They worship companies and have snitched on coworkers to HR for doing stuff like stealing office supplies and abusing employee benefits

I'm wondering if all credit card hobbyists are like this or just the ones in tech because theoretically, there's nothing about having good personal finance that inherently makes you have shitty politics. I guess I can see how people who do this think poor people are poor because they don't do all this neurotic credit card min maxing shit?

    • 1nt3rd1m3nt10n4l [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      I do not understand why people find screwing around with numbers on spreadsheets this enthralling.

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        there's a pleasure in working out how something operates mechanically and twisting its behavior to make it do something it's not supposed to. or that's my guess from experiencing something similar in games.