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[Hide] (104.6KB, 1002x866) Imagine that you're in your current situation with the current economic system, and for some reason find that you specifically can no longer use loans with interest rates (outside possessing your bank account). You can pay off your existing debts and withdraw your current stock holdings, but you can no longer invest in the stock market, or borrow or lend money with a higher rate of return than the original loan. You can't skirt your way around this with late fees either: if you lend someone money, all they can repay you in cash is exactly what you gave them.
How do you handle money in this situation? How do you cope with inflation? How do you profit? How do you save? If you can't loan with interest, how do you more redefine and handle "investing?"
I will admit, this scenario is inspired by the traditional Christian belief that usury is a sin and the Greek philosophers' disgust for usury. It's also coming from someone who doesn't own a credit card. I'm asking this not to start an argument on whether those positions were morally right or not, but because treating this like a challenge run and dealing with the questions above could produce some interesting answers. Some of the answers would likely carry over to a post-national collapse economy, disaster situations, surviving a debanking attempt, and general poorfag living too.