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The article suggests that the Bible commands basic income and that economic conservatives like the idea. As a lifelong student of the Bible and as an economic
by judah 11y ago
The article suggests that the Bible commands basic income and that economic conservatives like the idea.
As a lifelong student of the Bible and as an economic conservative of 20 years, I can say with certainty that this premise of the article is faulty.
Very early on in the Biblical text is the divine command to work and provide through labor. Basic income undermines and ultimately aims to eliminate this divine directive.
Among economic conservatives, we generally see Basic Income as a fool's errand and a pipe dream pushed by idealistic, Utopian thought disconnected from real world economics. We see Basic Income as a foolish idea with disastrous implications for the economy if attempted.
- beatpanda 11y ago>with disastrous implications for the economy if attempted. Oh? How would you characterize the results of implementing conservative economic ideas, as we've been doing in the US since the late 70s?
- beatpanda 11y agoMan, you all get in your feelings over nothing. That was a serious question.
- bradleyjg 11y agoIt's not so much a command as a curse: 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- dhd415 11y agoIt's pretty widely held among both Jewish and Christian Biblical commentators that work existed before the curse per Gen 1:28. The curse just made work more difficult and unpleasant.