Afterpay slurs ‘hold my beer, watch this’ as it lowers the bar with lending at Aussie pubs

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There’s a beautiful irony in a pub product failing the pub test, and that’s exactly what Afterpay’s partnership with the Australian Venue Co has done. By Friday, in 160 venues around Australia, anyone over the age of 18 with a phone and an Afterpay account will be able to stumble up to a bar and spend money they do not have on something they’ll have nothing to show for, all without so much as a credit check. Afterpay, which goes to great lengths to tell us “it can’t be used on gambli

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