@Amikke @moffintosh usurists are so bad that christian society had to ban them outright, and others had to have regular debt jubiless because they were entangling people in to generational interest payments. basically, professional debt slavery. and once again we see government protecting the usurist (student loans can't be bankrupted, but credit default swaps were bailed out by the state.)

historical records tend to speak very poorly of the profession. it is universally hated, virtually every profession hates usury (and bankers writ large), and scientific inquiries have shown that they aren't even good at their one supposed specialty (making accurate predictions where to allocate capital.)