• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
    10·
    11 months ago

    Mortgages make the bank money.

    If only there was some kind of large collection that represented the people that could offer loans for cost or near cost instead.

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

      represented the people

      Founding fathers laughing in corporate interests

      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
        91·
        11 months ago

        You’d be surprised what they would support. Until the neoliberals killed capitalism there wasn’t really that much problem with the idea of governments running public services.

        Hell, usury is a sin. Very clearly defined as such, biblically. You tell them the US government is in a position to act as an interest-free loan office and they probably wouldn’t have any real problems with the idea.

        • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Until the neoliberals killed capitalism

          Capitalism is very much not dead (though it does smell rotten)