dlthomas comments on A Kick in the Rationals: What hurts you in your LessWrong Parts? - Less Wrong

24 Post author: sixes_and_sevens 25 April 2012 12:12PM

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Comment author: AlanCrowe 25 April 2012 10:01:52PM 9 points [-]

If the linked essay make perfect sense to you, perhaps you can explain this sentence

In capitalism, all debts finally break free from the sovereign and become infinite by conjoining flows.

Comment author: dlthomas 25 April 2012 10:53:26PM 2 points [-]

I didn't read the essay, but taking a swing at the sentence, it could be a reference to the lending and re-lending of fractional reserve banking creating a larger money supply than what was issued by the sovereign. I'm not sure where "infinite" enters into it, though... maybe it is meant to mean "unending" rather than "innumerable"?