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Money simply facilitates transactions, capital requires a return.
I would say firstly that unsecured credit facilitates transactions, and has a cost consisting of shared system costs and defaults.
Secured credit and conventional Equity in a Corporation are the conflicting financial claims (financial capital) over productive assets (industrial capital) which require a return.
However, this return is paid for from the sale of production/ use value of the relevant productive assets.
Ther is nothing wrong with a cost of credit or a return on capital per se.
The key problem lies in the fact that interest-bearing credit currently is money. The increasing inequalities in access to this credit combine with exclusive ownership of productive assets - and particularly the Commons of land, non-renewable resources and knowledge - to create a continuing and finally unsustainable transfer of wealth. "The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson
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