Both sides during WW2 were also helped science, in terms of developing weapons. Does that mean science is evil too? Or just doing its duty to each nation?
I have to admit, when I first read about our fractional reserve and debt-based banking system, I originally thought "this must be a scam!" But after many years seriously thinking about the subject, I released that far from being a scam, banking is one of the most powerful forces for progress that humanity has. Yes it is fashionable to criticize bankers at present, and no doubt they do get paid far too much; but the mathematical mechanisms of banking are very sound, and indeed, in an indirect way, very noble.
Without the interest-bearing loans and debt-based economic model developed in the Middle Ages in Europe, we would have little technological progress, because technological progress is fueled by commerce, and commence rockets forward when underpinned by interest-bearing loans and debts.
No other culture or geographic region has ever come anywhere near the West in terms of material advancement, and an important element in this material advancement is the interest-bearing loans and debt-based economic model, which ignites very powerful economic forces. Yes you can have banking without interest (Islamic banking traditionally operates without levying interest), but then you do not get the same economic fervor, and then you don't get rapid material advancement. That is why other nations are now following the economic model set up by the West.
Only material advancement is going address the dire problems of diseases like ME/CFS, and all the myriad other very nasty and horrible diseases that nature has always thrown at us.
So yes, you are free to contemplate a world without the debt-based economic model that powerfully drives our economies forward; but you should also realize that there is an ethical dimension to this: we need to address the dire problems of diseases, and we need modern technological economies to do this.
You should not look at debt in itself as a bad thing. You can look credit and debt in terms of the + and – poles on a battery: it is the fact that one pole is positive and the other is negative that an electric current flows. And similarly, in our economies, moneys flows like a lifeblood, driven between the poles of credit and debt.
Sure, many governments are in too much debt at the moment, and the debt level needs to be reduced a little. But we certainly do not want to eliminate debt, as debt is in fact the driving force; it is the wind in the sails of all modern economies.
Of course, from a spiritual perspective, then this rampant material progress could well be criticized as corrosive to our spiritual welbeing. And I might tend to agree with that criticism. One of my interests has always been how we might maintain a spiritual dimension when immersed in increasingly materialistic societies.
But from the perspective of a sick ME/CFS patient like myself, I for one am glad that we have Western banking to fuel this explosive material progress, as one day this progress will lead to a cure for ME/CFS, and a cure for many other nasty diseases, and this material progress I hope will deliver humanity into a golden age of great health.