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Comment by JumpCrisscross

> banking system printed every dollar out of thin air and is charging interest on every single one (giving a cut to government)

This is also nonsense, though less so.

Money is created by private banks through lending. The government gets a cut, but that comes through taxation. Money creation is complicated, but it seems like every year someone watches a YouTube video about inflation and deduces, with zero further thought, that it must be a conspiracy.

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