• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      This one but in the now/future. Basically a lot of money was printed to pay for things but in order to not cause inflation we had to create debt to destroy that money in the future.

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      6 hours ago

      Honestly it pretty much gets generated out of thin air to start with and then everyone further loans the same money around to eachother.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 hours ago

      Mainly the poorer owe that to the richer.

      Also the richer owe that to each other.

      The last part could sorta be unwound in a more or less peaceful way (though very interventionist and the amounts involved are so large that we would see an explosion of corruption as the wealthy tried to extract gains from it by hook and by crook), but the first part would require a Revolution that tore down all existing ownership structures.