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This is a normal post I don't play games,
I just like the idea that in the near future things won't be done by big companies but by ad-hoc co-operatives summoned into existence by people who want to do something awesome, that evaporates back into the cyber-ether as soon as they've achieved whatever they set out to do.
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This is a normal post Maybe one day the government will work much like Kickstarter does.
FREE BALLOONS FOR ALL
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This is a normal post we can but hope,
put an end to this world of finance based on usury. All projects funded not by people who want to get more money out than they put in, but by people who put money in because they actually want to see the thing happen.
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This is a normal post If banks don't do it, the mafia will just fill in the spot.

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This is a normal post do you know what Usury means?

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This is a normal post oh god
here we go again
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This is a normal post Look I just want to buy my little girl a horse.

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This is a normal post
Usury (play /juri/[1]) is the practice making loans with excessive or abusive interest rates.[2][3] The term may be used in a moral sense — condemning taking advantage of others' misfortunes — or in a legal sense where interest rates may be regulated by law. Historically some cultures have regarded charging any interest for loans as sinful and some still do today.
Some of the earliest known condemnations of usury come from the Vedic texts of India. Similar condemnations are found in religious texts from Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (the term is riba in Arabic and ribbit in Hebrew).[4] At times many nations from ancient China to ancient Greece to ancient Rome have outlawed loans with any interest. Though the Roman Empire eventually allowed loans with carefully restricted interest rates, in medieval Europe, the Christian church banned the charging of interest at any rate (as well as charging a fee for the use of money, such as at a bureau de change).
The pivotal change in the English-speaking world seems to have come with the permission to charge interest on lent money[5]: particularly the 1545 act "An Act Against Usurie" (37 H.viii 9) of King Henry VIII of England (see book references).
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