Comment by h_tbob
1 day ago
Jesus said "sell your possessions, give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven".
I didn't read the whole article, but it's a great question.
On my religious journey, I have read things like this:
"You cannot serve God and money".
Ultimately, the smartest people, if they are Christian, will actually get rid of their money.
I asked God about it and he told me this:
"There's not enough money for everyone. A truly good person lets everybody else have the money, and just lives on charity".
It shocked me, but Jesus told me this:
"You can get more done without money than with it".
He pointed out the queen of england will never know her true friends, as everybody acts like it.
But if you are poor, you have that knowledge, and can thus live a healthier life.
Ultimately money is based of terror. It is literally based on the terror that if you counterfeit it you go to jail.
So I think that good people would not want to use a medium that requires terror to function.
This may sound crazy, but I think, as a programmer, it is the truth!
But maybe I'm wrong?
> "There's not enough money for everyone. A truly good person lets everybody else have the money, and just lives on charity" This also seems dangerously flawed. Money is a social construct, there could easily be enough for everyone if production > people’s needs. Some of this stuff strikes me as the result of ancient class wars.
Money is not a social construct. You are thinking of fiat, or numbers in bank computers. That's not money, it's IOU's. A gold coin is money. It has real material value irrespective of social constructs.
> Ultimately money is based of terror. It is literally based on the terror that if you counterfeit it you go to jail. The logic here seems flawed. This could be said of anything to do with obeying laws. Don’t I put my seatbelt on out of the terror that if I don’t I could go to jail? Therefore seatbelts require terror to function?