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Banks
A bank is a financial institution and a financial intermediary that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities.
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Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.
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He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneyc
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― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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