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Comment by antonvs

4 days ago

> That’s why the Bible and Quran are against usury.

The problem with that is they deny the existence of the time value of money, which is essentially a mathematical fact.

It's why Islamic banks come up with various workarounds to be able to charge the equivalent of interest.

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