If you want to go down that rabbit hole.... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/21/debt-jubilee-is-only-way-avoid-depression/ https://www.washingto

If you want to go down that rabbit hole.... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/21/debt-jubilee-is-only-way-avoid-depression/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/21/debt-jubi... > Until recently, historians doubted that a debt jubilee would have been possible in practice, or that such proclamations could have been enforced. But Assyriologists have found that from the beginning of recorded history in the Near East, it was normal for new rulers to proclaim a debt amnesty upon taking the throne. Instead of blowing a trumpet, the ruler “raised the sacred torch” to signal the amnesty. The Romans ended the tradition which was ultimately their unmaking. "Debt" was creatively replaced with "sin". The Italians still pray nostri debiti. Jesus wanted the debt forgiven. He died for your debt, pretty much. Empire and Economics: The Long History of Debt-Cancelation from Antiquity to Today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4DkZ3CWFOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4DkZ3CWFOk Bertrand Russell, "The Golem of Venice" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTiztUNrhhM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTiztUNrhhM