In our occidental countries, we are totally independent from the banking systems that force us to pay fees to dispose of our money.
Do you realize that your bank requires you to pay "account maintenance" fees, by imposing limits, when it is your money?
Today, more than 50% of the world's population does not have access to a bank account yet we see their proliferation on every street corner in our developed countries.
It's normal, banks create money.
Nobody really has euros, they are simply "units of account".
French commercial banks actually have a maximum of 7% of their real liquidity. (Against 19% in Switzerland, highest in Europe)
In this sense, if everyone wants to empty their account, it becomes impossible. (See Greece in 2008)
If you pay a merchant who uses the same bank as yours, no euro has actually spent.
If this merchant uses another bank, the clearing house will convert your account units into euros, and vice versa.
The European Central Bank obliges commercial banks to create liquidity in the form of bank loans and it is the banks that get rich at the expense of the population.
This banking system is, in my opinion, the scam of the century and is dangerous for the survival of the economy;
Debt is increasing day by day, the next crisis will be monstrous.
Thank you for the good insight.
The banking system is a classic piece of my definition of the core of the world system as a scheme by the alliance of political and financial elites to artificially prop up financial assets with state power. When the asset values hold, the elites benefit by issuing the assets without doing real work. When the bubble finally collapses, the average people pay the highest price.
The asset here is bank 'deposits.' 'Deposits' are just claims on a bank that are impossible to honor except in a bubble of confidence, that is protected by schemes like government deposit insurance, implicit promises by the government to bail out the bank, etc. In the US, the total premium paid for federal deposit insurance can't begin to pay for bank failures if everyone wants their money out.
What the banking system does is to increase the total supply of 'money' in the economy, which will then feed into other financial assets that primarily benefit the elites, for example, federal debt.
But the average person is stuck. If they don't put money in the banking system, it earns no interest, and the person still has to live under the general inflation created by the increase of money supply from banking.
Most conspiracies are secret. But the world system is an open conspiracy. Open conspiracies are possible to carry out only when you have enough power, combined with enough public ignorance, combined with enough public addiction to their pieces of the 'benefits.'