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    1. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 15 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @MicahMTG

      Yeah, for real. And I mean, even that being said, it's a pretty strong throughline in Christianity, to provide alternatives to family structures even though it tended to reinforce them in the larger society. I mean, what else is a monastery?

      2 replies 1 retweet 25 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 15 Dec 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @MicahMTG

      Christianity and Buddhism both underwent a lot of official suppression when they first popped up because of their open advocacy of young men dropping out of normal society (especially family life) in favor of the institution of a monastery

      3 replies 2 retweets 32 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 15 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @MicahMTG

      The Romans initially thought Christianity would crash the birthrate and be the death of society by keeping men from marrying and having kids (and Christianity probably beat some of its competitors like Mithraism by being more "family-friendly")

      3 replies 2 retweets 30 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 15 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @MicahMTG

      And when Buddhism first came to China from the West ("the West" meaning India) the government was wildly reactionary against it for similar reasons -- it seemed to undermine fundamental Confucian values Han Yu's Remonstrance of the Buddha's Bone is a fun read

      1 reply 2 retweets 27 likes
    5. Riff Chick Got The Vax‏ @RiffChick 15 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein @MicahMTG

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 15 Dec 2020
      Replying to @RiffChick @mssilverstein and

      I mean it's a hot take but it's actually kind of literally true Confucius believed -- and Mencius elaborated on -- this idea that if you truly cultivate a virtuous understanding of your place in the world, society just works, automatically Everyone knows their job and does it

      3 replies 3 retweets 28 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 15 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @RiffChick and

      This phrase we talk about so much in modern SJW liberalism, "negotiating consent", was something Confucius didn't like In his taxonomy of different professions merchants who make their living "haggling over prices" were close to the lowest of the low

      2 replies 1 retweet 22 likes
    8. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 15 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @RiffChick and

      some interesting background here, arguing that local villages were effectively running on gift economies, and that traveling merchants charging market prices were in some sense "cheating" by those standardshttps://acoup.blog/2020/08/21/collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-part-iv-markets-and-non-farmers/ …

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    9. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 15 Dec 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and

      i.e. that the village was running on a sort of invisible credit. i have a good harvest this year and yours sucks, i don't take advantage of it--in fact, i give much of it away through feasts, dowries, blah blah blah--because who knows what the next harvest brings

      3 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 15 Dec 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @RiffChick and

      Yes, exactly, and when you actually turn it into numbers that get written down and you make a conscious, public thing of demanding people keep track of whether they've settled up, you make the system worse and less stable Stuff that was once let slide becomes a festering debt

      3 replies 2 retweets 13 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 15 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

      I think we all kind of get this People talking about how they don't keep track of who paid for what among friends because that kills the friendship Rich friends quietly subsidizing poor friends to keep the peace without actually saying upfront that's what they're doing

      4:54 PM - 15 Dec 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 15 Dec 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

          The transition from a "gift economy" to a "money economy" over time is like Jerry telling Kramer from now on he pays for everything that goes missing from the fridge after he visits, only on a society-wide scale Lots of bad feelings and broken relationships

          1 reply 2 retweets 10 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 15 Dec 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

          On the other hand, a lot of people actually are aware that they always chip in more than they get back even if they don't make a public show of it and eventually they get fed up

          1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
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