• redtea
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    1 year ago

    Is there a way of getting a surplus without having a debt?

    This is not a rhetorical question.

    • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Depends on how you define debt, I suppose?

      Under a strict definition like “money that you’ve explicitly agreed to repay to a lender in the future”, the answer is simple: “take money without agreeing to repay it” (e.g.: taxes, liquidations, nationalization).