Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
ignoring all the evil shit, Christianity was created with prohibitions on greed and pride and such.
Then in the early 20th century, rich assholes paid for a radio “preacher” to basically say that greed and pride and shit were fine and dandy. And thus was born Prosperity Gospel.
Economics is the social control mechanism that filled the void vacated by religion after the enlightenment. A bunch of accounting rules cherry picked by the ruling class, protected from scrutiny, arbitrarily and inconsistently imposed on the masses, enforced by threat of violence.
Finance is its mythology. Banks are its cathedrals. Financial institutions its churches. Economists its clergy. GDP its God.
If religion is the opium of the masses, economics is their fentanyl.
“All the evil shit” basically comes around when somebody inevitably shows up and says:
“Look, those books are a lot of words. You’re too stupid to handle such responsibility. You need me/us to interpret it for your busy, feeble little minds. Don’t worry God gave us special authority for some indiscernible reason so you have to listen to us. 😉”
“Wide is the path to destruction” definitely comes to mind when it comes to people choosing the path of least intellectual resistance. (In the modern era, with reasonable literacy rates and unparalleled access to scripture.)
Sorry I’m more trying to signal boost you here because you’re so right:
Christianity practiced in earnest was a big time obstacle for the wealthy and powerful. They couldn’t stamp it out by force, so they do what they do with any culture: They stole it and sold it back in a way that glorifies themselves.
Nothing is more opposed to Christ than the disgusting greed and nationalism displayed today. It’s disgusting.
Steve@communick.news 2 months ago
I prefer “Financial Hording”
It literally is a hording mentality. But because it’s money, people give it a pass.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hoarding*
Steve@communick.news 2 months ago
Fixd
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
A distinction sans difference, it’s neurotoxic however it’s labelled.
Steve@communick.news 2 months ago
Now you’re literally fat shaming
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Obesity is a technically accurate classification of excessive resource accumulation.
Medical obesity typically doesn’t have an easy, meaningful, or effective path to address the application of the term, levelling blame at those affected is rarely justified.
Financial obesity is an entirely self imposed status, and those affected are entirely responsible for their continued classification.
The inability to identify or comprehend this nuance speaks volumes.