Yes. Anyone with power has to be physically vulnerable to the community they're serving. It doesn't even have to come to violence, usually social pressure is enough.
Also there has to be actual potential for failure. No bailouts.
In order to have financial markets on a scale larger than a village there must be interest.
Whether or not that is "usury" depends on which of the ten definitions you feel like using today. I'm not going to debate vague concepts you don't even understand yourself.
My proposal is that we should return to community based financial institutions such as savings and loan, credit unions and fraternal societies.
They must be local and they must be open to competition, but they also must exist. Not having finance at all is like saying we shouldn't have guns because someone might get hurt. It's emotionally appealing but not a real option.
This is such a weird concept. I'd be interested to hear what @tyler and @WashedOutGundamPilot think of it. The idea was that with a flexible deck, aircraft wouldn't need landing gear.
It was eventually ditched. I can't find any details on why but I'm guessing it would have been too difficult to have aircraft that couldn't land on conventional runways.
Around a year ago a doctor/scientist/engineer went haywire and attacked a class of kids. One kid was stabbed before her teacher jumped on him, acting as a human shield and protecting the rest of the kids. Then a passer by (Warren Donohoe) jumped in, wrestled the attacker to the ground, and neutralised him.
After that an assorted group of passers by showed up. A brazilian food delivery driver came over and hit the Algerian with his helmet. Some woman intervened to stop him beating him to death and a philipino nurse began administering first aid (stories unclear whether to the child, teacher or algerian).
The government and press reacted by stonewalling the incident, only giving the vaguest details. Later that evening there was an impromptu protest. The police were unable to deal with it and retreated. Given that that area is the most "enriched" in Dublin riots and looting quickly followed.
The next day the media chose to focus exclusively on the riot, completely ignoring who was actually involved and why the protest had happened in the first place. Meanwhile the pajeet Taoiseaċ realises he can't just sweep it under the rug like he normally does, so he formally recognises the brazilian driver as the hero who saved the day, invites him to the Oireaċtas and someone sets up a go fund me that nets him ~€500,000.
Naturally he goes home to enjoy his newfound wealth, but then he comes back a few months later to try to become a politician in that area (the electorate shitcans him).
Meanwhile almost no one knows Warren Donohoe's name. The press/guards refuse to release the name of the Algerian and play silly games trying to pretend he's Irish. The girl is still in hospital (she got to visit her home last week) and I think the teacher has recovered from her wounds.