• MenKlash@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Easy money is slavery.

    The existence of FIAT money (that is, the state monopoly of the money supply) is the mere source of the business cycle and the discoordination emerged in the economy.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      That’s just not true. Loans absolutely existed before fiat currency did, just look in the Bible for examples of people in debt thousands of years ago. There’s a reason Muslims and Jews don’t allow certain types of lending, they had issues with it historically.

      Access to easy money will always exist provided there’s a profit motive, and there has been for millennia. How that money is backed is completely irrelevant.