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This is wrong.

High trust societies where individuals can be expected to fulfill their obligations tend to prosper. Low trust societies where individuals cannot be trusted in this way tend to languish.

Paying back debts according to an agreed upon timetable is one of the important ways that high trust societies are built.



The Mortgage Bankers Association defaulted on its mortgage.

Everyone from the bankers themselves to the POTUS knows that paying off debts is only for suckers.

Let the billionaires pay their debts and their taxes first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage_Bankers_Association#D...


Which is why our society is languishing




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