[gaff33]

I'm not going to claim that finance isn't a clusterfuck - but paying people to store things securely isn't exactly strange.

If anything the amazing thing was that people would pay us to look after our money in the first place!

[ShorsHammer]

You give them $100,000 and they store $5000 of it, at best.

If other people take their money out first you'll end up with zero, if you're lucky though a government bailout will come along and the loss is outsourced onto future taxpayers.

The bank doesn't have your actual money on hold in case you want it.

[ru999gol]

But I already pay them extra for that and they do work and profit with my money. You think your bank is just doing nothing with your money? I think its not too much to ask to want to at least get interest matching inflation. But go defend the noble banks why not.

[greenshackle2]

Except they don't store all of it, they loan it out to other people and pocket the interest