Debt is platonic, Hersh. Big or small, it doesn't exist as long as you don't pay it.

Debt is platonic, Hersh. Big or small, it doesn't exist as long as you don't pay it.

Cool, let's keep this relationship platonic.

Now you're talking. Your new imaginary girlfriend is called credit, and you can do whatever you want with her.

Not enough slots.

No, I don't go in for this weird financial stuff.

Meanwhile real big money business men will keep taking out loans against the payments that you keep making like a fool.

Check it out, Hersh: The creditorial equivalent of a mountain. An impossible weight somehow lifted, just waiting for the disturbance that will bring down the avalanche.

What happens when it comes down?

If it comes down, it all comes down. Countries end. History restarts. Cunts die.

By some estimates the entire world is three trillion sol in debt. If every one-sol note in existence were used to pay off every loan, at the end of the day you would still come up short.

How's that even possible?

Inflation and compound interest. The abstract miracles of modern finance, holding aloft a juggernaut of debt.

The good news is, it doesn't have to come down.

It doesn't?

Debts have to be paid. That's the basis for morality.

Words spoken by a very slick cunt as he zips by on a nimbus of infinite credit.

Explains why everyone's so keyed up all the time.

Sounds like a stupid system to me.

It's only stupid for those in the losing position. The ones who think they have to pay back every penny.

The good news is, you don't have to be one of those people.

I don't?

This is about the Miracle Line, right?

It's about everything. By some estimates the entire world is three trillion sol in debt. If every one-sol note in existence were used to pay off every loan, at the end of the day you would still come up short.