From: user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   On 1/10/26 3:00 PM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:   
   > Actually Dubya had tried some "ownership society" initiatives that would   
   > decrease debt. ie, Islamic finance doesn't use mortgages, but the bank   
   > co-owns your house. And muslims give their managers a share of the profits   
   > instead of a salary. Greek diners do the same, they start the diner up then   
   > let some muslim guy run it in exchange for half the profits. Profit sharing   
   > and employe stock ownership is very anti-usury. But options are not.   
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   how would we fund consumerism tho???   
      
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