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What Capital Never Told You About Rent

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  1. fwlr · · focus · HN ↗
    Charging rent on capital was historically called “usury”, and was denounced by everyone from Aristotle to Aquinas, from Moses to Buddha to Muhammad. I suspect they had the right of it, which poses some problems for our present society, fractally composed of usury (as the article aptly outlines).
    1. Plasmoid · · focus · HN ↗
      That theory was based on the idea there was a fixed amount of wealth in the world and it was impossible to create more.
      1. josefritzishere · · focus · HN ↗

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