cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43990476
Your daily reminder that by supporting Big Tech, you are contributing to the insane wealth disparity.
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Be sheer existence in a capitalist society, we a contributing to an insane wealth disparity, wars all over the world, the breakdown of democracy and law and order, and the total destruction of our biotope.
Have you noticed how ancient religious texts like the Bible often heavily focus on financial themes, especially debt and inequality? This was long before capitalism existed. The existence of markets (capitalist or not) tends to lead to inequality. In fact, modern capitalist societies were the first to have the ability (though not necessarily the will…) to adequately address this issue using progressive taxation, as opposed to the older methods like the Jubilee, bans on usury, and later feudalism (all of which have severe drawbacks).
Yes, I have! Jesus and the money changers, Moses and the golden calf, easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, money is the root of all evil- I can go on forever.
My belief is that Man being cast out of paradise is a story of the break between nomadic and sedentary life, because we were able to live in purity and harmony with the world as it were, in plenty and only using what we needed, and wanted for nothing- and what is the first thing that happens after Man is cast out? Man lives in a hut and is toiling and plowing the soil, followed by a long list of kings, one more brutal than the next.
The accumulation of wealth is the root of evil.