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Godcast (GOWAD half) | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It's not the wealth, it's the method of acquisition.
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Christmassy Merry Dude | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @Godcast (GOWAD half) Precisely. The moral reasoning in the post relies too heavily on the magnitude of the wealth acquired as a reason for why usury is bad, which is why I disagree with the post.
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Godcast (GOWAD half) | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It's just one aspect of the issue. A 4chan post is more digestible than the collection of books I have on the topic
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Christmassy Merry Dude | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @Godcast (GOWAD half) Fair, but enough people looked at the post and thought "this seems funky, I'm not sure I buy it."

*Two* people even came in and were like "maybe usury isn't actually bad."

It's a very bad argument, it should be discarded.