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by dragonwriter 4592 days ago
> few people will do that in practice because they don't want any risk at all in losing the money they're saving for those things.

Many people do it in practice. Stuffing dollars in your mattress is "saving dollars". Loaning money at interest who will aggregate it with other money and invest in productive assets is an indirect investment in productive assets other than dollars.