Charging interest on non-reproductive goods is a metaphysical act, not a natural one. This is the unholy pivot from tokos (offspring) to profit extraction.
• The Torah forbids interest to fellow Israelites.
• Aristotle called interest “money breeding money,” which he considered unnatural and corrupt.
• Jesus overturns money-changing tables and his parable of the minas.
• Islamic Sharia bans riba outright, defining interest as a form of unjust gain or parasitic growth.
All of these traditions are reacting to the moment interest divorces from nature.
Original interest implied natural compound growth.
But usury has now come to mean abstract multiplication as a means for extraction ex nihilo.
