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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  you lend me a dollar. With that dollar, i buy tools, equipment, raw materials etc. I make ten dollars worth of goods, and sell them. I repay you with one fifty, and keep eight fifty for myself. |
But the economy only has $2 in it. Where did the $10 come from? It couldn't have come from the economy. The best you could have done was give me $2. But then you wouldn't have made any profit.