As for your inflation example, if my Grandfather a 100 years ago put in an hours worth of work that he got paid in $1 and put it in his coffee can, why isn't the work he did back then and the $1 it represents still able to buy the same amount of stuff today? Due to inflation that dollar is now worth $.03 cents. Somebody stole his work from him. True, some prices have gone down, but the basket of goods used to measure inflation has shown it to go up.
"What difference does it make where I got the $100 from?" That's one of our biggest problems. Nobody really understands where their money comes from.
"The government paid people salaries and bought stuff, that's how it spent money and people acquired it." And that's how it should work or at least for some of the money supply. But, then if government can do this, then why do they have to create treasuries and sell them to China with interest? Why do we even have a $10.7 trillion debt with interest to pay if we can just print it and pay people with it?
Come on, isn't this fun? Aren't you learning something? Keep going, learn the truth.
Now, answer the question where does money come from? Think about it. You got paid, and assuming you don't work at the government, how did your employer get the money? How did the person who bought your company's widget get their money? And on, and on. It all traces back to a bank. Only the principal though and not the interest.
Don't let religion cloud this. Even Aristotle (non-religious) wrote against usury and he wasn't religious. Keep going, I can tell you're coming around. I'm not trying to "win", I just want someone to tell me, with out a doubt, that I'm wrong.
Re: All interest is usury to people of silly religions
As for your inflation example, if my Grandfather a 100 years ago put in an hours worth of work that he got paid in $1 and put it in his coffee can, why isn't the work he did back then and the $1 it represents still able to buy the same amount of stuff today? Due to inflation that dollar is now worth $.03 cents. Somebody stole his work from him. True, some prices have gone down, but the basket of goods used to measure inflation has shown it to go up.
"What difference does it make where I got the $100 from?" That's one of our biggest problems. Nobody really understands where their money comes from.
"The government paid people salaries and bought stuff, that's how it spent money and people acquired it." And that's how it should work or at least for some of the money supply. But, then if government can do this, then why do they have to create treasuries and sell them to China with interest? Why do we even have a $10.7 trillion debt with interest to pay if we can just print it and pay people with it?
Come on, isn't this fun? Aren't you learning something? Keep going, learn the truth.
Now, answer the question where does money come from? Think about it. You got paid, and assuming you don't work at the government, how did your employer get the money? How did the person who bought your company's widget get their money? And on, and on. It all traces back to a bank. Only the principal though and not the interest.
Don't let religion cloud this. Even Aristotle (non-religious) wrote against usury and he wasn't religious. Keep going, I can tell you're coming around. I'm not trying to "win", I just want someone to tell me, with out a doubt, that I'm wrong.