Canal Street Dreams

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Canal Street Dreams
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Doordash x Klarna

Doordash x Klarna

Are we all about to die?

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Eddie Huang
Mar 22, 2025
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This feels like the end my Gs. The homies are financing burrito bowls on door dash or in the alternative paying now for the burrito, servicing the debt on the extra guac over 4 interest-free payments, and paying down the diet coke over 60 days at 7.99% APR.

I remember laughing when my “co-worker” financed 20” Lowenhart rims and low-pro tires on his car in 2002 when the economy was down bad, but he NEEDED people to know we were selling a lot more drugs than we actually were. It was kind of a dress for success vibe, dress for the job in the syndicate you aspire to type beat.

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That was some of the darkest shit I’d ever seen.

Then my roommate financed a couch from a Rent-A-Center and I thought it couldn’t get worse. But each of those purchases had multiple zeroes behind them. The Lowenhart transaction was about 5k. The beautiful Jennifer Convert…

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