Usury is One of Those Words. I don't know how a debt instrument needs a distinction like that. Our culture is such that we cannot make basic distinctions betwe

Usury is One of Those Words. I don't know how a debt instrument needs a distinction like that. Our culture is such that we cannot make basic distinctions between rents in general and productive work. I suspect we'd have to fix that, then let the existing accounting mechanisms sort it out.