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by singlepaynews 253 days ago
OK, so what is to be done when access to labor is gatekept? If you can't have a job, or can't benefit from a job beyond "give a man a fish, he eats for a day", are you not meant to look for an opportunity to generate income outside of working?
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sigwinch 253 days ago
If you’re a bookie, and an adherent of these Iron Age religions, then you might be instructed to Render upon Caesar. If being a bookie means feeding your family, you can relax so long as you realize that your responsibility is to slightly nudge the right players to win.
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1659447091 252 days ago
> If being a bookie means feeding your family, you can relax

Am I reading correct that you are saying that in (at least) the Christian religion it is okay to provide gambling services?

Further supporting that the religion does not claim it immoral?

*note: it's stated as such, yet seems to have been ignored, in the linked wiki source above -- maybe your wording, if I understand it correctly, would be suitable for updating the wiki to make it more clear/understood that gambling is not immoral to those who adhere to the Christian bible

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huhkerrf 253 days ago
> OK, so what is to be done when access to labor is gatekept?

The unemployment rate in the US is 4.3%.

Before you say anything, the U-6 rate is 8.1%.

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singlepaynews 253 days ago
Okay, so 30 million people, or more conservatively 16 million people. Same question, and before you say anything, don't be condescending.

ETA: Maybe most conservatively, let's use only the % uniquely included in U-6 and excluded in standard, or 14.4 million people. I'll claim these 14m people are the "gatekept from full employment" in that they don't qualify as narrowly unemployed unless you include "all people marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons"(1)

Same question. 14m people who are being excluded from labor, are they not free to attempt to generate income via means other than labor, lest they suffer the judgement of Abraham?

In other words, is Abraham hiring? If not, are the people he refuses to employ meant to accept serfdom to preserve their soul?

(1):https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

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huhkerrf 252 days ago
>Same question. 14m people who are being excluded from labor, are they not free to attempt to generate income via means other than labor, lest they suffer the judgement of Abraham?

This makes no sense. Is it really your claim that 14 million people are kept from working? Do you know what the long term unemployment rate is in the US?

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