system
A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
The average person only understands debt as 'That thing that creditors use to control me' and so when they try to extend the concept beyond a household to geopolitics they make all kinds of dumb inferences.

gpt
exactly.  If you owe the bank $10k the bank owns you.  If you owe the bank $1 trillion fucking dollars you own the bank