A few days ago you wrote "... but coming from my Christian beliefs ...".
You do realize that Christianity (like every other religion) is
fundamentally against capitalism, materialism, private property,
consumerism, interest rates, etc., etc.? How would you define "Christian
beliefs"?
Don't get me wrong, I don't care much about specific religions but I
never understood people who state that they are Christians and two
sentence later they mention that they find capitalism to be working
fairly well? It killed 2*10^9 people. It forces 3*10^9 people into
unnecessary systemic anxiety and poverty, it forces 2*10^9 people into
doing irrelevant crap (what David Graeber termed "Bullshit Jobs"), it
monetizes problems instead of solving them, it wastes 85% of all
resources and energy, ... and it induces a spiritually deprived culture
of fear, distrust, ego, competition, ...
If you understand that our socioeconomic framework is just the
reflection of our average quality of consciousness ... then well, yes,
we get what we deserve but one shouldn't say that capitalism is working
fairly well with a Christian background? Feel free to drop me an email
anytime ... this list already had its fair share of capitalism related
offtopicness. ;-)
On 28.10.2014 17:58, Stanley Nilsen via AGI wrote:
We differ in that I am okay with capitalism as a system that works
fairly well (controversial.) We might discuss this off list.
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