Burger King’s Dystopian Student-Debt Sweepstakes
The restaurant’s contest to pay off student loans is the latest offer to treat the idea of debt relief as a sweepstakes that only a lucky few can win.
by Adam Harris
May 24, 2019
2 minutes
Every so often a tweet breaks out of its social medium, and finds its way to Instagram and Facebook. On Wednesday, the tweet spreading across the internet came from Burger King.
got student loans? what's ur $cashtag?
— Burger King (@BurgerKing) May 22, 2019
Either Burger King was saying that it was going to send money to student borrowers using Cash App, a mobile payment service (a $cashtag is its
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