That's not the likely definition most will reach for here automatically (especially amidst the constant financial blackpilling).

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hammock 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think you’re mistaken. We’ve been in a private credit bubble for a couple years at least, it’s in the finance/economic news every week and I’ve even started to hear regular NPR doing primers on it for normies. The term for “retail credit” is consumer debt or consumer debt. We don’t call it retail debt because the retailer is not actually a counterparty.

Out of curiosity where do you primarily get your news?

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JumpCrisscross 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> not the likely definition most will reach for here

A lot of the datacenter buildout has been financed with private credit [1].

> financial blackpilling

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-02/the-3-tri...

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AnimalMuppet 13 hours ago | parent [-]

"Blackpilling" is apparently an incel term for fatalism/nihilism. Sounds like they're trying to read financial news through that lens.

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JumpCrisscross 13 hours ago | parent [-]

> "Blackpilling" is apparently an incel term for fatalism/nihilism

Any idea as to the etymology? What was the black pill? Is it a Matrix reference?

Meta: why are incel neologisms so catchy?

	▲	AnimalMuppet 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think (but I don't move in such circles) that originally there was "redpilled" to refer to people playing "The Game" (pickup artists). Original reference is to The Matrix, of course.

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john_strinlai 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

what on earth is "financial blackpilling"?