Originally, the fiat debt idea was set up to expand money beyond the amount of gold and silver there would be when the population expanded to numbers like today. The amounts of gold and silver being mined would not cover high populations so that everyone could have even just a little.
Fiat is borrowed into existence. Laws have changed the definitions of words like "borrow, loan, debt, lend, etc.," when used with the fiat money system. Loans are really creations of new money.
Originally, the idea for the debt money system would be to create new money with all "loans." For example. If someone "borrowed" money to buy a house, new money would be created to give to the "borrower" to buy the house. Over the term of the "loan" repayment, the repaid principal would be placed into an account to be returned to the "borrower" at the end of the term of repayment. The reason this was done was to keep the money system from creating more money than the system could handle, thereby causing hyper-inflation. Interest on the loan would be small, and would be the amount that the bank received for maintaining the account over the term of the "loan."
As we see in real life, the banks twisted the whole thing around and wouldn't return the principle to the creator/originator (borrower) of the loan at the end of the term. In addition, they increased interest rates to unnecessary and exorbitant percentages. Then they took their interest first, making the principal repayment to be extended so that they could continue to receive big interest payments for a longer time. If that wasn't enough, when people couldn't make their payments, they foreclosed on the whole property, no matter how much equity the owner had in the place, and sold it for pennies on the dollar, leaving the owner with nothing for all the years of sweat and money he had put into it.
The hundreds of $trillions of dollars that the world banking system has created that is just floating around on the banks' books, is money that should be returned to the peoples of the world who have borrowed from the banking system... or to the heirs of their estates if they have passed on.
The debt/money/fiat system may be a good thing if handled honestly. Yet, because the banks have corrupted the whole thing by using it to rob people and nations blind, it should all be collapsed back to a value for value system.
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