Dear Leviticus 25,
You tried to warn us.
Long before spreadsheets and credit scores, you understood something dangerous about debt. You knew that if debt is allowed to compound unchecked, it doesn’t just bind individuals. It enslaves generations. Which is why you whispered something radical into the law: forgive the debts. Reset the land. Cancel what cannot be repaid. The Year of Jubilee.
It was never practiced.
And now we know why.
Our modern money system is built on a quiet impossibility. Money is created as debt, but interest is not created with it. Only the principal exists. The interest is imaginary. Which means that for debts to be repaid, someone else has to lose. It’s musical chairs with math. Someone always ends up standing.
There is never enough money in the system to pay all the debt plus interest.
Let that settle.
This isn’t a moral failure of individuals. It’s a design problem. A financial operating system that guarantees scarcity, competition, and collapse for some… while rewarding those who already have more. Capital survives. Labor scrambles. And the ladder keeps getting pulled up.
This is where slavery changes costumes.
You’re technically “free.”
Free to choose which job drains you.
Free to sell your hours to survive.
Free to work harder and still fall behind.
That’s wage slavery. Not enforced by chains, but by rent, interest, and necessity. A system where people don’t work to live; they live to pay. And because the rules are written by those who benefit from the rules, the reset never comes.
The Jubilee would break the spell.
So it must never happen.
And so the system rolls on, pretending this is normal. Pretending this is fair. Pretending this is the only way.
But once you see it, dear Leviticus, you can’t unsee it.
This isn’t how money has to work.
It’s just how power prefers it to work.
Still counting the cost,
~ The Radical Left