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A comment on It’s Time for Real Time Settlement. Parent comment

Re:It’s Time for Real Time Settlement by selimthegrim on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @11:49AM (#26015574)
You might want to look into Amazon or “Hollywood accounting”
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Re:It’s Time for Real Time Settlement by gher-shyu3i on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @08:31PM (#26021519)
The fact that there are other examples of exploitation and fraud is tangential. The argument is that interest is one form of exploitation, it's not the only form.
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Re:It’s Time for Real Time Settlement by selimthegrim on Thursday February 04, 2021 @12:06AM (#26022814)
My point is unequally shared risk is exploitation, but maal-e-ghanimat isn't?
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Re:It’s Time for Real Time Settlement by gher-shyu3i on Thursday February 04, 2021 @08:18PM (#26031920)
Ghanayem is not unequally shared risk. People go to war for reasons, sacrifice their lives, and the winner takes bounties.
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