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Telorand@reddthat.com 2 days agoI know you don’t necessarily mean it this way, but there’s a very interesting (and infuriating) history to why the US reveres the wealthy. The short version is that the ultra wealthy were pissed about the New Deal, so they used fundamentalist Christianity to tie the idea of wealth to holy favor from Yahweh.
We will have to overcome that idea if we hope to gain real class consciousness.
so they used fundamentalist Christianity to tie the idea of wealth to holy favor from Yahweh
It’s much older. That bullshit goes back to John Calvin (16th century Christo-Taliban idiot), and there are even precedents for it in the Torah, though balanced by other provisions about behaving like a decent human.
Yes, I know. I’m not looking back at the entire timeline of history. I’m looking at the most recent example, because while the idea is not new, it is not an idea that lasts on its own; people wise up over time, which is why the idea gets rehashed by different figures at different points in history.
Makes sense for the overdrive push on the Christianity angle. It’s just obnoxious to someone who’s going pretty damn secular.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That concept existed WAY before the United State did.
The old idea was kings were rich because they were ordained to be kings by god. Questioning why the king was rich was questioning the word of god and punishable by death.
Telorand@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Sure, but why it exists today in the US is a direct result of the robber barons’ influence in the early 1900s. The core idea isn’t new, but this instance is.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Early colonized America used slave labor by racist christians. Those racist christians said they were supposed to be rich suppose to be rich because god made them that way. That predates the robber barons of the early 1900s.
Telorand@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Great, congrats. You are today’s biggest pedant. Here’s your prize.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
after decimating the indigenous americans that have been here more than 10k years.