Blessed are the creditors, for they shall inherit the earth. This is not in the Sermon on the Mount. Yet creditors believe it: if everybody were a creditor, we would have no unpaid debts and financial crises. That, creditors believe, is the way to behave. They are mistaken. Since the world cannot trade with Mars, creditors are joined at the hip to the debtors. The former must accumulate claims on the latter. This puts them in a trap of their own making.
債權人這回有福了,因爲他們將主宰地球。這並非「登山寶訓」(Sermon on the Mount)中的原話。然而債權人卻深信不疑:如果所有人都是債權人,我們就不會有任何壞賬和金融危機。債權人相信,事情就是如此,但他們錯了。既然地球不可能與火星做交易,那麼有債權人就會有債務人,前者必須通過後者來增加自己的貸款,這讓他們作繭自縛。
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