Interest is paid with new credit.

It doesn't get any simpler than that.

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when you put it like that it almost sounds like a retarded idea

You see it too

I can imagine a person could pay his interest with existing funds.

It's not hard. Do the math.

Existing funds are also created from new credit.

There you go. Someone borrowed it at some point to spend it.