Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by wootland 1188 days ago
If there's risk, I should be compensated for it with interest on the account.

I'm fine with banks being not for profit institutions run by the government. Allowing people to safely store their money is baseline civilization. If banks are private, the government is going to have to back them up because you can't have the operational accounts of nearly every business in the country getting wiped out randomly.