• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
      10·
      10 个月前

      Mortgages make the bank money.

      If only there was some kind of large collection that represented the people that could offer loans for cost or near cost instead.

      • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        10 个月前

        represented the people

        Founding fathers laughing in corporate interests

        • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
          81·
          10 个月前

          You’d be surprised what they would support. Until the neoliberals killed capitalism there wasn’t really that much problem with the idea of governments running public services.

          Hell, usury is a sin. Very clearly defined as such, biblically. You tell them the US government is in a position to act as an interest-free loan office and they probably wouldn’t have any real problems with the idea.

          • Asafum@feddit.nl
            7·
            10 个月前

            “Hell, usury is a sin. Very clearly defined as such, biblically.”

            Ayyyy that would be a wonderful thing to bring up to a Dominionist Republican and watch them struggle between “need to force people to believe we’re a religious nation” and “we cannot give the people services, they must pay.”

          • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            10 个月前

            Until the neoliberals killed capitalism

            Capitalism is very much not dead (though it does smell rotten)