Economics – Drew Downs

Sell your possessions, and give alms. (Proper 14C)

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The easiest and hardest teaching at the same time. Sell your stuff and give the money to the poor. Just like that.

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Debt it is often treated as the neutral arbiter of balance. But it is the way we justify inequality, enslavement, and separation.

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The baby formula shortage is yet another example of what we are refusing to do to fix our fundamental problems.

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We allow people to offer a dishonest critique of the argument for cancelling student debt based on false powerlessness.

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“Going back to normal” is a deeply pessimistic idea. And it represents a fatalism we cannot afford to encourage.

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The first problem with the way we talk about our economy is that we use phrases that don’t mean what we think. The second is worse.