Please note: when the British created their companies, they created them not on the basis of credit, but on the basis of partnership financing: the East India Company, the Moscow Company that made money for the British Empire and all the rest. But to enslave and trap someone, yes, credit works there. Credit and interest are a way to gain control. Therefore, by the way, the Talmud forbids receiving benefits of more than one-sixth, more than 16% per year. If you receive more, you must give the difference to good deeds. A segment of the program "P... P... with Deliagin" ("Yom" book club). Blatsky