Talk:usury

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Sometimes this is defined as high interest rates. This is an extremely narrow definition of usury and for the most part excludes the modern forms of exploitative moneylending, e.g. debt-based monetary policy. A slightly more general definition makes the term much more useful. AP295 (talk) 07:53, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

@Minorax: See above. It's subversive to use the definition "extremely high interest rates", because it's so narrow that it cannot be used to describe exploitative lending in its present form. Debt-based currency is exploitative regardless of the specific interest rate. I have a relevant essay on Wikiversity [1]. At the very least, a second definition should reflect the more general sense of the term. AP295 (talk) 17:30, 11 June 2024 (UTC)