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Which planet do we owe the money to?
ever wonder why why we stopped talking to Pluto?
Future Earth of course. We're paying that down for the next century like bad student loans.
This one but in the now/future. Basically a lot of money was printed to pay for things but in order to not cause inflation we had to create debt to destroy that money in the future.
Mainly the poorer owe that to the richer.
Also the richer owe that to each other.
The last part could sorta be unwound in a more or less peaceful way (though very interventionist and the amounts involved are so large that we would see an explosion of corruption as the wealthy tried to extract gains from it by hook and by crook), but the first part would require a Revolution that tore down all existing ownership structures.
Honestly it pretty much gets generated out of thin air to start with and then everyone further loans the same money around to eachother.
We owe it to each other, or to the oligarchs.