The ancient Code of Hammurabi easily predates the Old Testament, and the Ten Commandments which Jesus would oppose. Rules of trade, transactions, and the use of money were embraced in law-bound civilization, in the land of Hammurabi. One quaint, old rule deals directly with the matter of chattel, or property:
"If a man be in debt and sell his wife, son, or daughter, or bind them over to service, for three years they shall work in the house of their purchaser or master; in the fourth year they shall be given their freedom."
What plays in Las Vegas, stayed in Las Vegas, even then: Now a kind of tourist. . . ."attraction." Hammurabi knew how to party, hearty, and get away with it. Jesus notes that actually, even on the sabbath--you are allowed to save your sorry ass.
Not coincidentally, but clearly intentionally: The rules of the treatment of human individuals devolved mainly in the greatest of human errors of history: The computing methodology of the money-changers. Jesus discussed it in the New Testament, Matthew 25:14-30, in the link. The legend only notes, in coincidence, that when the money-changers started getting smacked around, then did the death penalty contriving begin.
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV - The Parable of the Talents - ?For it - Bible Gateway
So the fixed percentage income raise rewards the rich, and the successively less rich less. Finally toward the bottom, the poor with less cannot keep up. Eventually. . .like in modern Las Vegas(?). . .then the house payment is among the first things to go. Likely that comes after wife and child. . . .as the first things to go(?). . . .there.
There is an ancient version of the rights of chattel, easily said, going-forward into the basis economic rights of chattel: Of thousands of years ago. Out goes the wife and child, and out goes the hapless foreclosed, even in the Matthew Story.
Then in contrast, there is a Free Economic model contrast, found in Matthew 20:1-16, shown in the link. The Obama-Biden "Make-Work-Pay," refundable income tax credit, rewarded income tax filers, regardless if they had worked all the year or not. In the link, laborers get the equal amount reward, regardless if they had worked all the day or not.
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV - The Parable of the Talents - ?For it - Bible Gateway
The Republicans eventually took away the Christian, Free Market, method. They famously then went ahead, and ran a Mormon for President, instead. Anyone can ask them.
How signficant is that Obama-Biden-Pelosi-Reid change of biblical proportions in all of history? Accustomed to the ancient ways of rights of chattel: The laborers rail against the householder, for making the laborers of the entire day--equal in pay to the one hour laborers. Possibly terror at the prospect of the rights of chattel compelled their response. They could get easily, tossed out, too!
The arithmetic of the money-changers tends to generate an arithmetic of collapse. The household that should have been enriched eight talents, only got seven. The foreign religion of the Pythagoreans can be applied. Like in the recent, Democratic Partisan, refundable incometax credit--in the contrast: The low income market has spending increase, just like the upper income market. A market with spending is promoted, able to be supportive universally. . .and even by everyone included.
In the Matthew 20:1-16, story--no one gets sold into service to pay off debts, and no one gets otherwise tossed out of the household, or entire housing market.
"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!"
(Lands of Many Nations even now many moons wiser, with livery not like Buckskin and Moccasins--and dead-bird feathers, in hair(?)!)
"If a man be in debt and sell his wife, son, or daughter, or bind them over to service, for three years they shall work in the house of their purchaser or master; in the fourth year they shall be given their freedom."
What plays in Las Vegas, stayed in Las Vegas, even then: Now a kind of tourist. . . ."attraction." Hammurabi knew how to party, hearty, and get away with it. Jesus notes that actually, even on the sabbath--you are allowed to save your sorry ass.
Not coincidentally, but clearly intentionally: The rules of the treatment of human individuals devolved mainly in the greatest of human errors of history: The computing methodology of the money-changers. Jesus discussed it in the New Testament, Matthew 25:14-30, in the link. The legend only notes, in coincidence, that when the money-changers started getting smacked around, then did the death penalty contriving begin.
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV - The Parable of the Talents - ?For it - Bible Gateway
So the fixed percentage income raise rewards the rich, and the successively less rich less. Finally toward the bottom, the poor with less cannot keep up. Eventually. . .like in modern Las Vegas(?). . .then the house payment is among the first things to go. Likely that comes after wife and child. . . .as the first things to go(?). . . .there.
There is an ancient version of the rights of chattel, easily said, going-forward into the basis economic rights of chattel: Of thousands of years ago. Out goes the wife and child, and out goes the hapless foreclosed, even in the Matthew Story.
Then in contrast, there is a Free Economic model contrast, found in Matthew 20:1-16, shown in the link. The Obama-Biden "Make-Work-Pay," refundable income tax credit, rewarded income tax filers, regardless if they had worked all the year or not. In the link, laborers get the equal amount reward, regardless if they had worked all the day or not.
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV - The Parable of the Talents - ?For it - Bible Gateway
The Republicans eventually took away the Christian, Free Market, method. They famously then went ahead, and ran a Mormon for President, instead. Anyone can ask them.
How signficant is that Obama-Biden-Pelosi-Reid change of biblical proportions in all of history? Accustomed to the ancient ways of rights of chattel: The laborers rail against the householder, for making the laborers of the entire day--equal in pay to the one hour laborers. Possibly terror at the prospect of the rights of chattel compelled their response. They could get easily, tossed out, too!
The arithmetic of the money-changers tends to generate an arithmetic of collapse. The household that should have been enriched eight talents, only got seven. The foreign religion of the Pythagoreans can be applied. Like in the recent, Democratic Partisan, refundable incometax credit--in the contrast: The low income market has spending increase, just like the upper income market. A market with spending is promoted, able to be supportive universally. . .and even by everyone included.
In the Matthew 20:1-16, story--no one gets sold into service to pay off debts, and no one gets otherwise tossed out of the household, or entire housing market.
"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!"
(Lands of Many Nations even now many moons wiser, with livery not like Buckskin and Moccasins--and dead-bird feathers, in hair(?)!)
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