• WhatsThePoint@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Every central bank system is a perpetual debt machine. It’s why the founding fathers specifically fought against them being established here. If you print the money then loan it to a government, how does the government pay that interest? Central bank loans the government $100 at 1% interest, even if they spend none of it, how do they pay the 1% when the issuer of the currency is also the loaner? Governments have to continue to accumulate debt in this system. They have always been a perpetual and compounding debt system.