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The Pentateuch has multiple injunctions against defrauding workers of their wages [even merely overnight!] https://bible.usccb.org/bible/leviticus/19?13 https:

The Pentateuch has multiple injunctions against defrauding workers of their wages [even merely overnight!] https://bible.usccb.org/bible/leviticus/19?13 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/leviticus/19?13 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/deuteronomy/24?14 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/deuteronomy/24?14 I discovered not long ago that it's actually considered "an abomination unto the LORD", so imagine the ancient world equating homosexual buggery with failure to pay wages. If only we still adhered to such moral standards. But seriously, it's true, the USA seems to have strong protections about this sort of abomination, and I am thankful that I've always worked W-2 and never 1099 or under-table for reputable corporations who were always above-board with their payrolls. Of course I've also donated thousands of hours to my church, including genuinely skilled, high-level sort of labor, and it took me several decades to figure out that I really need to expect nothing at all in return for that kind of service!

cess11 2y ago
When digging into that it's also a good idea to read up on how the jubilee years worked. Once wage theft is eradicated, if not earlier, we should bring back jubilees.
- AStonesThrow 2y ago
  Jubilees have not stopped since the 14th century or so, for Christendom, and I contend that a lot of Project 2025 and the Trump Administration actions are indeed secular implementations of very sound Jubilee principles. Government is currently chock-a-block with Catholics, Jews, and mainline Protestants who understand exactly how wide justice works in a Jubilee context, and they’re providentially positioned to make it a reality. They are implicitly following the lead of the Holy See and the Holy Father, having declared an Ordinary Jubilee Year of Hope. The fact that many people hate what’s coming down is a clear indicator that Jubilees work, especially in terms the principles of justice for all, wealth redistribution, freeing slaves and servants, fallow fields, and returning foreigners to their ancestral lands, but when these ideals are set into motion and made reality, some very comfortable and spoiled people whine about how horrible things are...
  - cess11 2y ago
    No. Ancient jubilees were radically egalitarian, and this administration is radically reactionary and hierarchy obsessed. Somehow a clever person like yourself has been fooled.

cess11 2y ago

When digging into that it's also a good idea to read up on how the jubilee years worked. Once wage theft is eradicated, if not earlier, we should bring back jubilees.

AStonesThrow 2y ago
Jubilees have not stopped since the 14th century or so, for Christendom, and I contend that a lot of Project 2025 and the Trump Administration actions are indeed secular implementations of very sound Jubilee principles. Government is currently chock-a-block with Catholics, Jews, and mainline Protestants who understand exactly how wide justice works in a Jubilee context, and they’re providentially positioned to make it a reality. They are implicitly following the lead of the Holy See and the Holy Father, having declared an Ordinary Jubilee Year of Hope. The fact that many people hate what’s coming down is a clear indicator that Jubilees work, especially in terms the principles of justice for all, wealth redistribution, freeing slaves and servants, fallow fields, and returning foreigners to their ancestral lands, but when these ideals are set into motion and made reality, some very comfortable and spoiled people whine about how horrible things are...
- cess11 2y ago
  No. Ancient jubilees were radically egalitarian, and this administration is radically reactionary and hierarchy obsessed. Somehow a clever person like yourself has been fooled.