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Because you're a greedy human and you will find a way to take a larger slice of the pie. It happens every single time. You'd think this would be obvious by now.

How you think the banking system works is how "educated" people think it works and even that isn't correct, by the way. There is no reserve. The funds aren't real. It's all just made up numbers. There have been several Hollywood films made about it (e.g. The Big Short and Margin Call). It's almost so stupid you think there must be something else to it, but it's just people playing with numbers.




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