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Societal Pressure "Hooked on Credit" Hooked on Credit Becoming of legal age was the beginning of a whole New World. For me all these new responsibilities hit me like a train wreck. The pressure of college is not the only thing that I had to learn to handle. Credit card vendors were out like vultures hunting their prey. Once I applied to one card all these other companies started to call me. I know that we are in a Capitalistic country. This means that that this country can make money is from consumers buying things. They have to buy these things with money. Nowadays the easiest way to buy something is with a credit card. But some people like myself think that these cards are like free money. But unfortunately they are not. The point of a credit card is that the owner is lent a certain amount of money