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Well, a lot of religions created before the modern era of banking say that lending with interest is a sin, and there are some people that still believe it.

• monocasa 4y ago
  Also, most of the Muslim world works off of banking without usury.
  • pseudo0 4y ago
    Most of the Muslim world just offers financial products that have "fees" coincidentally exactly equal to the interest a non-Muslim bank would charge.
    • monocasa 4y ago
      Correct, but those financial products don't have a tendency to combine in weird ways the way interest bearing systems do.