Mateus Martins Bruno ⚓️♰☧𒂼𒄄
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Intellectual History of Economics @jhet_journal editorial assistant @SynesisIdeas creator/host @PliJournal editor BEc @UFRJ MA @UCD PhD @Cedeplar @ieabrasil ♰☧
The Church Fathers' call for radical detachment is structurally impossible today because we have shifted from a "diversified" subsistence model to a "unitary" market economy model. In the past, money was often superfluous to basic existence because people had direct access to the commons or subsistence activities; you could sell your surplus wealth and still survive through self-sufficiency or communal ties. Whatever money you made or possessed was not the totality of your possessions nor was it tied to what you could produce if you got rid of it. Today, however, every necessity, from food, to shelter, to even legal status, is gated behind the market and a cash transaction, meaning that today "selling everything" no longer leads to a simple, pious life, but to total systemic excision and physical destitution. If you don't have money in a market economy, you do not eat. Ultimately, the modern economy has eliminated the "middle ground" between wealth and death. Because we are now primarily wage laborers who must pay for the "right to exist" (rent, utilities, and taxes), the "abundance" the Fathers tell us to give away is actually our only private safety net. I have said countless times that in the past wage labor was only a step above destitution, so imagine how miserable, how pathetically poor in real terms an entire society comprised of wage laborers, enslaved to the market is. We are already the destitute the fathers spoke about. The teaching cannot be faithfully lived out by individuals today until the totalizing reign of the market, the reign of Mammon is defeated. The current system has effectively criminalized the autonomy required for true Gospel poverty.
"a turista levou DOIS pontos" Esse médico tem q fazer um curso de costura urgentemente. Como q ele alinhavou uma meia lua dessas com dois pontos?
Fisher opted out. That's the message he left you. It's over.
Marxist garbage, coming from the Pope. Perhaps he might mention how the CCP persecute Christians and crush dissent with murder and "organ harvesting". But that wouldn't play as well. Is he getting his talking points from Obama & Axelrod? YIKES.
7° Round: (proibido para ML opinarem) Marx / Nietzsche / Freud
