When an ordinary Lehmer resident walked into a National Bank hall carrying the deed to his property and could easily apply for a mortgage loan with same-day disbursement, it was enough to imagine how tempting this was to people!
Most people needed money now, and the shortage of goods in society was gradually becoming apparent. This was no longer an era of barter.
It was not as if you could take something you believed was valuable and exchange it for whatever you wanted from someone else.
You had to produce money!
This was also an inevitable result of social development and evolution. In fact, at its root, using currency to purchase goods was still a form of barter, because everyone knew that currency itself was also a commodity.
It was simply a very special commodity. To a certain extent, it quantified purchasing power and directly embodied it in the goods themselves. As a result, this commodity serving as a reference became increasingly important.
The bank was willing to lend, and more and more people walked into the bank, until the amount of money it could mobilize grew smaller and smaller! The Head Office Director, who knew all this, cursed furiously and insulted the Loan Business Supervisor from top to bottom. If his self-restraint had not been barely adequate, he might already have resorted to violence.
Once people made up their minds, the changes in their positions and attitudes became far more resolute than anyone could imagine.
It was like a woman.
When she loved you unconditionally, you could insult her dignity while harshly tugging at her hair from behind, and she would still think that as long as you were happy, she would be happy too.
But when she no longer loved you, you were like a maggot in her