| ▲ | orwin 5 hours ago | |
I borrow you 10 money i use to buy my chair-making tools. I make the chair, sell it 20 money, then pay you 12 money back for the service rendered. Basically money is supposed to be a tool that help us creating capital by exchanging goods. | ||
| ▲ | DrScientist 4 hours ago | parent [-] | |
But aren't you confusing the means of exchange with the creation of value. The creation of value is me taking energy from the sun and converting that into a chair. You lending me money is you extracting value from artificially being a middleman. It would have been more efficient to write an IOU to the tool maker, make the chair and pay back the tool maker directly. Now sure that IOU isn't that fungible - however that highlights one of the absurdities ( if I understand it correctly ) of the current banking system where private banks are able to in effect issue IOU's on their own basis but put mine and your name on it as a guarantor - resulting in the public having to bail out banks when they over extend. | ||