“Debt is modern slavery and should be abolished entirely”
Agree
- Traps people in perpetual servitude cycles
- Interest extracts wealth from poor forever
- Creates artificial power imbalances
- Borrowing binds future labor involuntarily
Disagree
- Credit enables investment and growth
- Nobody forces people to borrow money
- Lending carries legitimate risk deserving compensation
- Would destroy economic development completely
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