[quote]lixy wrote:
orion wrote:
That is a religious and outdated concept that completely misunderstands the role of the entrepreneur and the cost of risk.
It is not even medieval it goes back way beyond that and has destroyed more than one perfectly fine culture.
If you think it’s healthy for a society to have some of its people feed off usury, it’s fine by me. I understand entrepreneurship and the costs associated with risk, but I don’t think having money work for you should be an ideal to strive for. I believe it is destructive to society and linked to many problems we face today.
But there’s no way I’m discussing this with you. Because, at the end of the day, things are the way they are and I’ll just be banging my head on the metaphorical wall.
A solid credit and banking system is the heartbeat of every economy and if you want one reason why the whole ME has the GDP of Spain you can blame Islamic usury laws.
The whole what now??? Where did you pull that one from?
Besides, most of the Middle East does not implement usury laws. Also, Spain has the 8th largest GDP worldwide.
What is really funny though is that you want to take away the money from people that do not work but at least have worked for it and give it to people who also do not work.
You should stop sniffing coke off hookers’ bosoms. It’s affecting your reading abilities.
I never said I wanted to take away anything from anyone. Just noted that it wasn’t healthy for society as a whole, to have people sitting on their asses while money works for them.[/quote]
I simply want to point out that I only did cocaine once and that it never got past my crooked septum.
Thank you.
