There are thousands of true and thousands of untrue answers to this question. What I am trying to collect are true answers offering insights. The kind of insights people need in these days of pressure and crisis. Some examples:
Because it makes men and women do things they might not do without getting money for it.
Because debt can be calculated by money, multiplied by time and rather safely transported over Time.
Because debt and money are old tricks to bully and extort masses of people.
Because finance transports the old tricks with new words.
Because 3rd world 'development' usually prepaires the people there to obey to the old tricks.
Because the private profit optimizing banks are emitting all the money for the profit of themselves and the very rich.
Because the states are in heavy debt because of that.
Because the money system we have, allows the very rich and the private profit optimizing banks, led by banksters, to rule the world.
With time we might also publish the most outrageous lies answering this question to contrast them with the truth. OK, I said the truth - even though every human being has a different perception of truth, it is an outrageous lie to state there is no such thing as truth. It might be part of many neoliberals ideology, morally allowing them to do anything for there own profit, but it definitely has nothing to do with justice or truth and it has no positive effect on 'the economy', the state or the people.
