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Originally Posted by Byue
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Usury was illegal for most of humanity history because our elder understood the basic principle that if I lend you a gold piece, and you need to give me two back, you will necessarily have to take it from someone else, just to give back and thus, there was incentive to prevent you from repaying.
They also implemented a vey heavy tax on what you currently owned but the trick was to share a lot of your wealth to not be taxed.
So poor and rich could mingle without much animosity.
Because as Plato wisely observed, if you protect private property, you protect those who have against those who don't. Thus the best defense against envy, is to share the wealth.
But these dudes were dumb.
And so am I.
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When a Jew isn't allowed to charge interest in a usurious manner, they consider that slavery. It's literally another shoah.
Plato was a Eugenecist, by the way.
“Weak parents should not procreate. Because their children would inherit their inferior qualities, they would have no strength to lead a meaningful life, or in any way contribute to the state.”
Not exactly a paragon of virtue, nor enlightened