Thrifting means to go shopping at a thrift store, garage sale, or flea market where used items are sold at discounted prices. Middle-to-upper class society has begun to partake in this trend, which previously only been done massively by the lower-to-middle class. The gentrification of thrifting has increased general thrift shops and also luxurious thrift carnivals e.g., ThriftCon, GiveAway and many celebrities take part as models and ambassadors of such thrift stores.

Microcredit institutions provide very small legal loans to impoverished borrowers who typically lack collateral, steady employment, and verifiable credit history (which are required for traditional bank loans). To make up for the incurred risk, microcredit lenders charge much higher interest rates than banks

Mitotic Regeneration is a technique that allows users to forcibly stimulate their body's cell division, by inserting an implant, instantly healing themselves whenever injuries are sustained, which essentially grants them temporary immortality when enabled. However, a body's cells ca only split a fixed number of times in a person's lifetime. Every time the technique is used, the user's lifespan is shortened depending on the severity of the injury