I myself am descended of property-owners. It can be said that my grandfather,finally got the cows out of Texas, way before the Republicans would set about freeing them too! Now there are liberals, called Vegans, instead. Republicans and Hare Krishna even have religion in common, if not exactly. Property has never been cheap, actually. An $800.00 black was a major asset before 1860. Many had hundreds of them. Banks knew about this, and then it was all gone. Even the land was worthless.
That aside, actually: Moses was an educated man, raised in Egypt. Possibly Moses new of the Code of Hammurabi--and other Mid-Eastern ways--from way before his own 40 year problem with the GPS. Anyone would say, he was really that educated(?): Harvard Law School, even at its best, is thought educated. So slavery had been a customary source of labor before then. Before then, even currency was less at issue, and so commodity exchange masked the price and cost of labor. If there is currency, then also the matter of arithmetic follows--which did not occur in Genesis One, no matter how many days anyone thinks there may have been.
In Deuteronomy 23:19-20--and elsewhere--the concept of arithmetic in human affairs, involving currency: Was being understood. Not everyone could understand it(?), and so even way before Moses, even debts had started to happen. The application of the arithmetic was becoming less and less benign. In Babylon, a three-year term of enslavement--as settlement of debts--did provide a measure of housing, food, and work clothes protection for the wife and kids. The Old Man was debt-free. The community could continue. Later on, in Egypt, merely the death of one monarch meant slavery, even for the Jewish Refugees. By the time of Jesus, slaves had been set--in Rome--to killing one another for sport and spectacle. Profits were already widely understood. Those were of value, the humanity was not. Jesus could look back at usury--in Matthew 25:14-30--and try to reinvent the already more ancient concept of community--in Matthew 20:1-16. Everyone was more prosperous, and could be set into the market-place, even the very next day. Many had been going about possibly, even other marketplace business, even until the last hour: When they were hired.
Moses had failed to understand the effect of the arithmetic usury. Inverse usury was not on radar. Jews were set to screwing up everyone else. World Community and Peace was not at hand: All thanks to Moses--an educated man. Not Mohammed, not Adam Smith, not Karl Marx, Not Keynes, Not Milton Friedman--No one would note the difference that is shown in the New Testament stories, possibly of Greek or Roman origin. Israel had twice been conquered by the greater deities of Greece and Rome. You could get that awareness from most people, at the time. In the usury story, in Matthew: The square root of five squared, plus the square root of five squared--if you think of an upside down right triangle, would create a new income scale of about length seven. The household was not enriched the expected eight talents. Moses did not have the apparent concept. Likely Babylon had no need of it.
And should you spread the story, your kids or grandchildren will likely be whipped til they bleed, by your neighborhood school headmaster, way before Santa Claus arrives!
That concept can apparently, be understood worldwide.
In school, some kids are better than other kids, and all the other kids are not worth the extra effort.
This is an educated species, and even teenage girls get prize money for wanting to do that, or whatever it was Cosby thought he was doing(?). . . .Or the teenage girl(?).
Doctor Cosby, EdD, is an educated(?) man. . .apparently more than most(?).
"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!"
(Many on Lands of Many Nations can take $25.00 worth of beads and trinkets, and now buy Moscow, instead!)
