• TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Gasp reading “capitalist” as someone seeking to exploit something in order to make capital must be hard. There’s no way anyone could have possibly done something similar to that before supply side Jesus handed capitalism to white people in London or whatever.

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      It is a great shame that the influence of Judaism and Christianity didn’t permanently instill Western society to maintain a robust concept of usury.

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      1 year ago

      I guess if you redefine reality to match your authoritarian ideology, no one can effectively argue with you.