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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  Sure ... I don't see interest as the root of all evil.
(although the Middle East does - that's why they have a unique creature called Islamic banking, where interest is forbidden by religion and is something practised only by evil, immoral foreigners like Americans, LOL).
I still have a savings account. That means I lend money to the bank. They pay me interest for it.  |
The older I get, the more I have a strong distaste for debt, as well as those who make a career of tending to it.
People here are expected to get into debt for everything. Their education. Their cars, their homes, their health. They often sign on the dotted line with reassurances that everything will be fine, while having very little idea of what they are really getting themselves into.