“Charging interest is immoral exploitation regardless of what modern banks normalized”
Agree
- Profiting from others' desperation is predatory
- Debt compounds to trap people permanently
- Ancient religions banned usury for good reason
- Time value of money is accounting trick
Disagree
- Lenders take risk and deserve compensation
- Interest enables investment and economic growth
- Nobody forces people to borrow money
- Alternative is no lending at all
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