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Agreed. But there is something we can learn from the Bible as it deals with wealth redistribution. There was a Jewish fellow on here some years ago who propos

Agreed. But there is something we can learn from the Bible as it deals with wealth redistribution. There was a Jewish fellow on here some years ago who proposed in a thread that modern societies consider a jubilee year as mentioned in the Tanakh or Laws of Moses. “The Jubilee is the year at the end of seven cycles of shmita (Sabbatical years) and, according to biblical regulations, had a special impact on the ownership and management of land in the Land of Israel. According to the Book of Leviticus, Hebrew slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven, and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest.” SOURCES: - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)#:~:text=The%20biblical%20requirement%20is%20that,of%20all%20Israelite%20indentured%20servants https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)#:~:text=T.... - https://bibleproject.com/podcast/jubilee-radical-year-release/#:~:text=The%20Year%20of%20Jubilee%E2%80%94it's,every%20fifty%20years%20in%20Israel https://bibleproject.com/podcast/jubilee-radical-year-releas....

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If you want to go down that rabbit hole.... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/21/debt-jubilee-is-only-way-avoid-depression/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/21/debt-jubi... > Until recently, historians doubted that a debt jubilee would have been possible in practice, or that such proclamations could have been enforced. But Assyriologists have found that from the beginning of recorded history in the Near East, it was normal for new rulers to proclaim a debt amnesty upon taking the throne. Instead of blowing a trumpet, the ruler “raised the sacred torch” to signal the amnesty. The Romans ended the tradition which was ultimately their unmaking. "Debt" was creatively replaced with "sin". The Italians still pray nostri debiti. Jesus wanted the debt forgiven. He died for your debt, pretty much. Empire and Economics: The Long History of Debt-Cancelation from Antiquity to Today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4DkZ3CWFOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4DkZ3CWFOk Bertrand Russell, "The Golem of Venice" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTiztUNrhhM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTiztUNrhhM

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If you want to go down that rabbit hole.... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/21/debt-jubilee-is-only-way-avoid-depression/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/21/debt-jubi... > Until recently, historians doubted that a debt jubilee would have been possible in practice, or that such proclamations could have been enforced. But Assyriologists have found that from the beginning of recorded history in the Near East, it was normal for new rulers to proclaim a debt amnesty upon taking the throne. Instead of blowing a trumpet, the ruler “raised the sacred torch” to signal the amnesty. The Romans ended the tradition which was ultimately their unmaking. "Debt" was creatively replaced with "sin". The Italians still pray nostri debiti. Jesus wanted the debt forgiven. He died for your debt, pretty much. Empire and Economics: The Long History of Debt-Cancelation from Antiquity to Today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4DkZ3CWFOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4DkZ3CWFOk Bertrand Russell, "The Golem of Venice" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTiztUNrhhM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTiztUNrhhM