the new Sisyphus
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He should have to pay rent the whole time too.
And the debt accrues interest.
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Not just taxes on what he makes in hell, but also the taxes he was supposed to pay while alive.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I'll add only that inflation 's a bitch, and you don't get raises in hell.
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Not a lot of debate among scholars. There's no other evidence of the "eye of the needle" being used in a way that refers to the small doorway in a larger city gate or any of the other alternative readings. Conversely, there are sewing needles dated to that time and place that are roughly the same as modern sewing needles.
The statement is exactly as radical as it looks at first glance. Rich people can't be right with God, period. All the rest is trying to invent a loophole to let rich people be Christians after Constantine made it widespread in the Roman Empire. First century Christians were almost entirely made of the poor people of the Empire, and would have had no problem at all with the statement as read. The modern reinterpretation is often argued by the exact same people who say you're not supposed to "read between the lines" of the Bible.
Here's a Religion for Breakfast video on it: https://youtu.be/sf0Fm8aVApk
And don't get me started on Paul's "the love of money is the root of all evil". Just totally bastardized for the Prosperity Gospel.
The word for Aramaic word for "camel" is basically the same as for "heavy rope", which is a much more reasonable interpretation. Just as a rope is too big to fit through the eye of a needle, so is the material obsession of a rich person too big.
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I dunno, is that long enough?
Edit: Only 3.865 million years
No, because he'll still need to pay rent, utilities, and taxes. He'll be lucky if he pays off that debt before the heat death of the universe.
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I wonder how high the rent in hell is.
Probably pretty cheap considering people are always dying to get in there
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Why do we have to wait until he dies
And will netflix run with the idea because I'd like to watch
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I'm not religious, but the bible clearly states that it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich person to get into heaven.
There's debate about the "eye of the needle" being simple metaphor or whether it was an actual, but very tiny, gate to the city of Jerusalem. Regardless, the idea stands.The original word means thick string iirc. Still hard, but not quite as ludicrous
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Why do we have to wait until he dies
Hierarchy!
Man, don't you know? The law ain't made to help earthy cats like us. Here on our planet, back in the old days - back in the real old days - it was just every man for himself, scrooblin' and scrat-scroblin' for the good stuff, the greenest valleys. And the strongest, meanest men got the best stuff. They got the green valleys and were like 'The rest of you, y'all scrats get sand.' And that's when they made the laws, you see? Once the strong guys got it how they liked it, they said 'This is fair now, this is the law.' Once they were winning, they changed the rules up
~ Jake the dog
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Homie, it's 2025, everything runs in parallel these days..
In parallel and multiple dimensions.
Not to confuse with universes.
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Assuming his networth 241 billion, 7 dollar minimum wage, 24 hour workdays, that would be just under 4 million years
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Probably pretty cheap considering people are always dying to get in there
Surely that'd make it expensive! It's in high demand!
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Assuming his networth 241 billion, 7 dollar minimum wage, 24 hour workdays, that would be just under 4 million years
I say tack on another week of wages for every disciplinary action, and if he somehow still magically becomes a perfect employee and completes it with the handicap, fuck it, let him into heaven.
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Why do we have to wait until he dies
I don't trust Bezos to distribute his wealth, but I sure as fuck don't trust anarchists or tankies to do it, either. I DO trust a democracy to do it via taxation, but apparently that's a fucking minority, too, so it never gets enough votes.
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I say tack on another week of wages for every disciplinary action, and if he somehow still magically becomes a perfect employee and completes it with the handicap, fuck it, let him into heaven.
That's what purgatory is for really
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Assuming his networth 241 billion, 7 dollar minimum wage, 24 hour workdays, that would be just under 4 million years
wrote last edited by [email protected]I hope you calculated expenses that mere mortals need to spend their money on.
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If Jeff Bezos wasn't here, it would be some other cunt. Don't hate the player, hate the game. It's capitalism which rewarded his exploitation of slave labour. And using slaves isn't that new of an idea. If it wasn't him, it would have been someone else, because there's an entire system rewarding this exact kind of putrid behaviour.
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If Jeff Bezos wasn't here, it would be some other cunt. Don't hate the player, hate the game. It's capitalism which rewarded his exploitation of slave labour. And using slaves isn't that new of an idea. If it wasn't him, it would have been someone else, because there's an entire system rewarding this exact kind of putrid behaviour.
wrote last edited by [email protected]We shouldn't absolve people of their sins because someone else might have acted the same.
You're right, but we should also hate Bezos.
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If Jeff Bezos wasn't here, it would be some other cunt. Don't hate the player, hate the game. It's capitalism which rewarded his exploitation of slave labour. And using slaves isn't that new of an idea. If it wasn't him, it would have been someone else, because there's an entire system rewarding this exact kind of putrid behaviour.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
We can and should absolutely do both. The game is perpetuated by the players.
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If Jeff Bezos wasn't here, it would be some other cunt. Don't hate the player, hate the game. It's capitalism which rewarded his exploitation of slave labour. And using slaves isn't that new of an idea. If it wasn't him, it would have been someone else, because there's an entire system rewarding this exact kind of putrid behaviour.
Sure maybe. But would they just be cunts or kinda cunts or do they see employees piss in bottles and go: man these workers have too much free time.
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Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
We can and should absolutely do both. The game is perpetuated by the players.
That is a good take, in all honesty, which I haven't considered before. Fuck both of them.
