• Takumidesh@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Money hasn’t been printed, but for the bookkeeping, 3 individuals who have contributed a total of 200 dollars, have in their accounts 380 dollars.

    When a bank loans your money out, as we are well aware, they don’t change the account in your balance. In order to do that, the dollar being loaned must be duplicated somehow. This is normal to how fractional banking works, and guidelines and requirements for how much specific money you need to maintain doesn’t change that.

    The only way to change it is to switch to full reserve banking.

    If a bank is able to loan out your money, without also removing it from your account, it is by nature created, the money is in two places at once.

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      Money hasn’t been printed, but for the bookkeeping, 3 individuals who have contributed a total of 200 dollars, have in their accounts 380 dollars.

      Person A’s account: $100 Person B’s account: $100 Person C’s account: -$180

      This does not add up to $380.