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Buy now, pay later: The new debt trap?

An illustrationof Buy Now Pay Later model. [Getty Images]

It is the father of realism, Henrik Ibsen, who is quoted as saying: "Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt."

Yet nothing is too expensive in today's tech-savvy world as long as you have a smartphone and some documented cash flow.

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