Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Hmm

"Ancient Israel was to be a community working under the economic principle of solidarity. Rich and poor were bound together. If the poor could not get out of poverty, the rich would eventually be involved in seeing things righted. It would be a bizarre anomaly in Israel for a member of the community to get so indebted as to become an indentured servant. How strange an ancient Israelite would consider the great American pastime whereby a family gathers around a game board, and the objective of the game is to obtain all of the property on the board, and then, after building houses and hotels, to charge your kin such exorbitant rent that each of them goes into financial ruin one by one!" -Scott Bessenecker