stackyFACTSEarly religious authorities despised the idea of money making money without actual labor, so they strictly banned the practice of usury. Since society absolutely requires loans to function, merchants spent centuries inventing insanely convoluted legal loopholes just to charge a five percent fee without facing eternal damnation.
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