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<blockquote data-quote="Percivale" data-source="post: 72134397" data-attributes="member: 302279"><p>I suppose alienation means the feeling that one is not getting the value that one's work is worth. That happens easily since unskilled workers generally do not have near as much bargaining power as their employers. I think the minimum wage, progressive taxes, and some safety net programs do a better job of balancing that inequality than communism does. Transferring ownership from a private business to the government doesn't change the workers position much necessarily. </p><p>The Bible is neither capitalist nor communist. I'd say it's closer to the distributism that GK Chesterton proposed. Of course it's hard to say if or how you would apply the things in Deuteronomy like the Jubilee, but the whole Bible is clear about caring for the poor and avoiding greed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Percivale, post: 72134397, member: 302279"] I suppose alienation means the feeling that one is not getting the value that one's work is worth. That happens easily since unskilled workers generally do not have near as much bargaining power as their employers. I think the minimum wage, progressive taxes, and some safety net programs do a better job of balancing that inequality than communism does. Transferring ownership from a private business to the government doesn't change the workers position much necessarily. The Bible is neither capitalist nor communist. I'd say it's closer to the distributism that GK Chesterton proposed. Of course it's hard to say if or how you would apply the things in Deuteronomy like the Jubilee, but the whole Bible is clear about caring for the poor and avoiding greed. [/QUOTE]
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