Probably. It encourages a society where people think in words like "economic growth" and next thing you know the currency is worth half what it used to be because people got more focused on number go up than actual value
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What does interest have to do with what you said?
Lenders gravitate towards being bankers
Bankers want number go up
They make borrowers want number go up
Loans get paid back with debased currency at interest rates lower than inflation and people still act like the bank is profiting because number go up