Walter Brueggemann - Kingdom vs. Cash? (N153)
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The Negative Effects of Debt on the Economy
Market in its pure form does not acknowledge any neighbors other people are simply competitors and what happens is that that neighbors disappear from the screen. The book of Deuteronomy endlessly talks about widows orphans and immigrants who are the people without power to maintain themselves in the economy yeah well the ills of continual debt are very clearly seen in the United Kingdom as wellWhat would a neighborly economy look like? Well I think you can argue that the dominant economy basically operates by the maintenance of debt and intends to keep people in debt because what debt does is to make people dependent and assures a pool of chief labor.
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