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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

They dream up money? How does that work? I'd like to do that.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You should read about how banks work. Most of their "assets" don't actually exist, they're counting borrowed money as still being theirs.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Landlord stans havent read Smith after a 200 year head start, what makes you think they will read anything?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Simply put, when enough people deposit money into their accounts, banks will simply take the money and lend it to someone else. It is not "their" money, but crunch enough numbers and do enough predictions and you might make it out.

    That's why "run on the bank" is such a feared things - if everyone starts withdrawing cash or sending it to a different bank, the bank can't really do that because they don't have the money.

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