usury

The legal concept in called usury, and it varies by state.

For the record I'm against surge pricing as I feel it amounts to usury in the Aquinian sense.

The church prohibited usury, but lending still happened, so they had some knowledge of percentages as well.

He's not talking about you, then.<quote>Economists who expect people to be rational wont believe in usury.

There have been laws, prohibitions and taboos against usury since time immemorial, and for good reason.

The Catholic church even went so far as to forbid usury, preferring to delegate tasks as inferior as money lending to Jews.

I'd go further than disagreeing with his scheme, there is a reasonable chance it is illegal to charge such an extortionate interest rate, and may constitute usury...

The history of contemporary insurance dates to the catholic church and the prohibition of usury.

Credit cards are an adjunct to all this, essentially representing systematized usury and privacy loss as a requisite convenience, but they do not stand at the core.

It's hard for me to escape the feeling that Islamic banking replaces usury with hypocrisy, but I guess high-context Cultures could probably make the same argument in reverse.

The article doesn't really seem to question the mere existence of payday loan, which is the sort of actual usury I thought existed only in the most undeveloped nations and in medieval times.

In the Bible, Jesus cast out the moneylenders from the temple, and thus for centuries usury - loaning money at any interest - was prohibited in Christendom, upon torment of one's immortal soul.

Automation, division of labour and credit brought capitalism, that brought bourgeois values: democracy, meritocracy, disdain for aristocracy, disdain for the disdain of "usury"... So it's given that technological progress becomes more than just "technological".