RE: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: I pay my debts (sort of...)

[Jorg Rathlev <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Why did you have to divide your debts into 1 point debts? Couldn't you
> simply transfer 7 and 10 points to yourself to repay the debts?

I don't have enough Points. I think I have 5 (I had 9 and paid 4 for the similarity game), but I have at least one so I can pay the debts like this in any case.


> More to the point: what does this prove? Even if you pay a 10 point
> debt to yourself you still owe tha bank 10 points. But maybe it's just
> me not remembering the rules correctly.

The debts get destroyed when "payment has been made" (R358).

Of course, since I have not paid anything to the bank, one might claim that new debts are created whenever I pay them to myself. But rule 358 states that "payment has been made [...], satisfying the debt." This means by making payment the debt is satisfied (ok, it might also simply be a definition of payment).

But even if I do continue to owe points to the bank, I'm not required to pay them back because there isn't any debt that would actually require such payment. And if new debts are created, I can repeat the same process again and again. Until someone fixes the rules, at least.


Joerg