@jeffcliff @cjd @BowsacNoodle @mjdigspigs @vic The government ultimately owes the central bankers. They, like everyone else, must dance to the central bank's tune. A man that owes a debt is a slave to his creditor.

Violence does not have to be an everyday thing. Many cops go their entire career without shooting someone. Yet they still wear that gun every day. They don't have to enforce the law with violence very often because the credible threat of violence is enough for most people. But if cops were to all be disarmed and forbidden from ever shooting anyone one no matter how violent they were acting, the credible threat of violence would vanish, and many, many, many more people would commit crime as a result.

If lenders have no way to force recalcitrant debtors to cough up what they owe, very few people would repay their debts. They'd take the money, say thank you, then give the lender the middle finger as they walked away. All law and government ultimately relies upon the credible threat of violence. If money isn't backed by something physical with real value to it, if it is printed out of thin air by a non-governmental group and then lent to the government and others at interest, that money, that debt can only be backed by the threat of force, forced used to collect the debt owed to the ultimate lender.