Depends on where you say it but my most polarized take was: investment based on interest (usury) is just a legalized form of fraud.

You can always make the argument that charging money on money is literally how much of the global economy functions, but from a purely ethical perspective, it has the same if not worse effect of how a landlord rents land.

Yeah it can work, but often times it just goes unregulated and becomes a form of abuse designed to milk you dry.

Everything relating to loans these days is backed by some mega bank, which is in cahoots with every other bank, which also runs the federal reserve in the USA, so they basically have overwhelming control of the economy, which happens to be built on trillions of dollars of debt servicing (35t for the government).

The 2008 market crash was a result of fraud at basically every level of the economy from a single person all the way to the board members of banks like BofA, Chase, etc and even the SEC. Realtors were selling faulty and risky adjustable rate mortgages, which were then being packaged into mortgage backed securities (MBS), which were then being misreported as AAA value by every rating agency who were also in cahoots with every bank, which were then being packed into huge collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) which they themselves were being repackaged into even bigger CDOs and synthetic CDOs which every bank was basically gambling money on.

All it took was for the faulty mortages to start to fail past only something like 8%, and every thing backing that (MBS, CDOs) collapsed and lost value.

Except because about the only people who were trading these massive gambling pools were banks, so they lied about the value of the assets (particularly the MBSs via aformentioned ratings agencies) which they sold and then promptly shorted to protect themselves from the problem they created.

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Sharing this sentiment will basically get you laughed out of the room from any finance program because so much of the economy is fundamentally based around interest, ie the cost of borrowing money. Even genuinely safe options like credit unions still have interest, albeit at much much lower rates that are much more practical.

But to me, it will always seem like a form of fraud.

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In case your wondering, the reason its polarizing is because there is a significant portion of people that actually do believe the above, notably a lot of Islamic countries. They have lots of banks that do not engage in interest based transactions, which is interesting but often seems to lack any research about it compared to a typical system.

The global market also doesn’t take them too seriously because most of those countries (controversially) also have regular banks too, that also just so happened to be involved with schemes that caused economic turmoil, especially countries that take IMF loans. Most of them have shot themselves in the foot already and have nothing much to stand on now.

Must also hate lines of text longer than 70 characters lol?

Reminds me of the time Mossad sent letter bombs against Palestinians living abroad.

https://youtu.be/gS5cDF0IC_Y

Actually, the fake vaccine initiative had several sources say it wasn’t successful in proving OBL’s final location.

By that point, they had found his suspicious compound anyway but needed some sort of confirmation that OBL was really there.

Regardless, now a substantial amount of people refuse to take vaccines after they learned the hep b drive was actually a CIA operation.

Which is really stupid because Pakistan was formerly the last country that still had polio cases and it took them another decade before they finally started to reduce it. iirc they were just recently surpassed by Gaza.

BBC trying not to make up facts and still successfully passing as a credible news source challenge (literally impossible)

You know the funny thing is you could have just posted with with the actual article title and the community would have read it normally and upvoted it anyways.

Instead now your post is gonna get banned and everyone is watching you make a fool of yourself over internal US news.

Bollywood applying for stolen ideas is like China claiming their knockoffs are actually the original

“Hey so does that mean you can fix my laptop and make my next gen app idea for free?”

God please no, Sydney actually has viable public transport compared to something like the US.

There’s so many cool JDM type stuff there probably because enthusiasts keep cars around the city.

I’d much rather be able to see all the slick WRXs and Evos while walking than having to drive a crapbox into Sydney.

96% backed a strike

That’s actually impressive. Boeing must really have been trying to rip them off lol.

Kamala and the party holding him accountable for this shit and pushing for him to get out now if he’s really demented enough to still believe Israel, would really help nonvoters see the difference.

She told the nonvoters to screw off at the DNC rally so I think it’s safe to assume she won’t be changing her stance any time soon.

Show people who aren’t planning on voting that at least one option holds themselves accountable

Can’t wait for the inevitable “polls way off” after Michigan alone rocks the vote. She’ll still probably win considering Trump is losing heavily now, but it’ll be interesting to watch nonetheless.

I feel like you could eventually buy the specs off ali baba after every factory gets their hands on it lol

Yes but fun fact, maximized corruption.

If I were that person’s family and got invited to the whitehouse, I’d probably sock him in the jaw lol.

Already a line from all the surviving veterans of the USS Liberty.

Sorry, bleeding edge weapon sales are only allowed for countries using them to exclusively kill civilians.

Otherwise you have to buy Lockheed Martin premium subscription for a trillion dollars to unlock all weapons.

Ubuntu: Shoves snaps, netplan, and horrible documentation down your thoat

Literally every other distro: Here’s our standardized system, do what you want

IDF: “Bruh why aren’t you firing indiscriminately at the civilians like how we taught you in basic”

Next time don’t support the losing opposition of shitty warlords that made the Taliban look better in comparison lol.

I seriously don’t get why they decided to make them the government of Afghanistan if they were going to invade anyway and could have set up a real government with a proper election.

Almost like they wanted some former criminals who would follow every order given to them in exchange for becoming the head of the country.

Out of all the people to use the words “slams” with, they really chose Blinken.

Dude reports on anarchy, war, espionage, regime changes, and literal genocide with a deadpan face and tone. America could nuke a random third world country tomorrow, and Blinken wouldn’t even bat an eye.

His job is to literally ignore public information and present Washington’s stance as the ultimate truth lol.

Whenever they were conquered by an outside force with a better social culture lol

Man I remember when saying the above on reddit would result in the entirety of r/Chodi showing up to report you to the site admins lol.