usurers

We small time usurers will find, very late in the game, that our money doesn't mean much when the social contract has been shattered.

The big thing there is for usury, usurers have to keep the dream of exponential growth alive to charge exponential compound interest without getting tarred and feathered like so many usurers before them.

That's very abnormal historically, most usurers in the Middle Ages getting the whole town to kill them for their avarice had much skinnier spreads.

Time to stop subsidizing usurers by letting them get away with this.

Saying that Visa's entire fee represents nothing but a drag on the economy is very much of a piece with the historical loathing of merchants and usurers, who, as anyone could see, did not create value.

For power usurers there's 7zip or WinRar or other solutions.

I thought Hacker News was full of actual entrepreneurs but it seems not, we have good old fashioned usurers and their foot-soldier landlords.

In those times convicted usurers danced on the end of a noose, but I'm not suggesting that be used as a punishment these days.

Well I for one am shocked that usurers are engaging in usury.

The whole system of debt relations that we have built up as a society is ruining us, and the blame belongs with the usurers who exploited the system and profited off the rest of us.

Common criminals, usurers, profiteers, etc., must be punished with death, whatever their creed or race.

Just another of life's necessities the usurers have got in on so that they can leech of the productive members of society by introducing limitless competitive expenditure, for their own gain.

"Parents who expect gratitude from their children (there are even some who insist on it) are like usurers," says Kafka in his 1914-1923 diaries.

To "keep up", to "have" more than we can afford, we go into debt, and the usurers are more than happy to oblige.

Common national criminals, usurers, profiteers and so forth are to be punished with death, without consideration of confession or race." And that's another idea I basically fully agree with.

Point 18 demanded the death penalty for traitors, usurers and profiteers, and Point 16, calling for the maintenance of “a sound middle class,” insisted on the communalization of department stores and their lease at cheap rates to small traders.

Usurers are unreceptive to any notion that you won't pay every last extortionate penny.