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This is reflected in the relative wealth of Christian vs Islamic communities, as Islamic communities religiously reject usury
by AndrewKemendo 4y ago
This is reflected in the relative wealth of Christian vs Islamic communities, as Islamic communities religiously reject usury
- skee8383 4y agoThey also function in a tribal manner where judeo christians do not, jewish and islamic communities help each other they don't have as many factions and in fighting as christians do. when a muslim or a jew opens a business they hire family and friends and people from their religious community, christians will hire anyone because that's what the christian religion is about, helping people regardless of who they are. it's very noble but in a capitalistic economic system it doesn't give christians any advantage.
- matt1555 4y ago[flagged]
- skee8383 4y agoI never said that. lol. but they probably don't practice it amongst themselves.
- snozolli 4y agochristians will hire anyone because that's what the christian religion is about I get the feeling you've never lived around Evangelicals or Mormons. Joining the right church is a long-standing method of business/career networking.
- skee8383 4y agoonly my whole life. evangelicals that is. i don't know much about mormons. but the evangelicals around my era are very multicultural and allow anyone in their church regardless of who they are and they will hire anyone at the businesses they own.
- snozolli 4y agoand they will hire anyone at the businesses they own. I don't think you realize the business opportunities you're missing out on. They aren't exclusively hiring their own, but it's human nature to trust those closer to you. I've seen this heavily reflected in the evangelical and Mormon communities, but you'd never know unless you had insight via friends or family.
- recursivedoubts 4y agoUsury is not why Christian nations are wealthier. Usury crushed the roman empire, which is why the Christian church, which took over administration when it fell apart, banned it. A lack of tribalism and a high-trust society, heavily influenced by the Church's ban on cousin marriage, is why the west was able to become so wealthy.
- hellisothers 4y agoWhere can I read about the second sentence?
- whitemary 4y agoThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism By Max Weber OK fine, it's a slightly different thesis but it's the correct one ;)
- hellisothers 4y agoIts weird to say but that title sounds fascinating! :D
- whitemary 4y agoHumanity did not deserve the Frankfurt School.
- ineedasername 4y agoThe idea of dischargeable debt (bankruptcy) probably helped too. People may be a lot more willing to take risks that require capital but increase economic welfare if they don’t face prison for themselves and complete ruin for their family if the risk doesn’t pay off.
- LawTalkingGuy 4y agoMaybe we'd have better businesses if you couldn't run them right to the wall and safely declare bankruptcy while keeping your profits. There's a theory that the faster things happen, the better - where we forgive outright fraud because it's theoretically driving commerce. In my experience, badly run (or intentionally fraudulent) businesses actually kill an entire area of commerce - by cheating and often going bankrupt on suppliers who then go out of business themselves rather than being able to provide their product to actually competitive companies who would remain in business.