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Re:10 years of whatever this has been by azth on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:02AM (#29266944)
> by pumping up the value of debt relative to labor, i.e. making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

In other words, interest based debt is bad because it is exploitative. Something we've known for a long time now. Interest based lending is prohibited in Islam for that reason (as well as in Judaism and Christianity).

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Re:10 years of whatever this has been by brazzy on Saturday November 20, 2021 @03:54AM (#29286581)
Whether it's interest based or not makes zero difference in regard to how it's affected by inflation and deflation.
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