@nntaleb recognized that Marx was original:
"The 4 most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and Einstein were scholars, not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine work within institutions."
But remember not all original thinkers are correct or good.
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Reminds me of the proverb, lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. It seems that being poor, while not in itself sinful, increases this sinful desire for security. Just as richness increases desire for self-sufficiency before god.
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"Ahimsa" is a buddhist name but I see you're more christian than I am. I believed for many years but now I don't. I still appreciate the moral aspects, the wisdom, of christianity but a loving God in Creation, that's what I can't "see". I see the opposite: a cruel Creation.
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Cruel creation was the lesson in Job. Even the good man suffers. Dostoevsky, who we know is religious, offers the solution of being the optimistic comedic fool.
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I stop there. Big heat where I live.
And I have to traduce, verify: difficult task.
I just wanted to talk about value: work + offer/demand,
not only offer/demand (where mimetic theory is efficient
and useful)
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The search to fulfill needs is a desire to me because needs fulfilled is dignity. When you lack of money you are constantly living humiliating experiences (being unable to pay this or that to your family, friends and so on).
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The Bible seems to imply that while this might be a sin of Pride (if God wants you to starve to death, who are you to complain? Harsh but Qoheleth may agree), primarily it is a condemnation of those in power responsible for the withholding of dignity through extortion.
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When food is scarce, rivalry comes but also hunger, which is not desire. I think desire comes when food is abundant: snobbery time, rivalries for fashionable peanuts.


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Yes, but I see all scarcity of food (famine) as political. So to me it is sinful extortion by principalities and powers that forces humiliation and poverty upon the people and prophets. Yet this is not reason to drop ones faith in God and turn to appease Pharaoh for sustenance.
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