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If it wasn't obvious, don't take my off the cuff statements as fact, there's a whole lot of literature on these topics that is way more authoritative than me XD
Anna Kyruin
2024-04-09 00:28:50 +0000 UTCRegarding why my Jewish ancestors were so very tied to financial systems: (Get ready for a gross oversimplification a historian would punch me for) There was a period in history where they were expelled from many countries and denied access to citizenship and most upwardly mobile fields of employment. As a quirk of both Jewish and Catholic theology however the lending of money was seen as a lower class occupation due to the usury laws in scripture which Catholics saw as applying to everyone. However Jewish people only saw those as applying to them lending to other Jewish people (to whom lending money should be for charity and not for interest), so they were free to lend to everyone else. The Jewish people were thereby encouraged by circumstance into being financiers for purely economic reasons, and then vilified for being "greedy" financiers. This was also a partial motive for later expulsions of Jewish people as it would be an economic boon to kick out the Jewish lender and have all the debts owed to them cancelled and their property taken by the culture in which they lived. This is, as I said, a gross oversimplification. There was a lot of much more complex noise happening in which all the involved cultures were lending to and charging each-other interest. This is just the postage stamp explanation I was always given. As for why it is still the case today... antisemitism and nepotism. People associate Jewish people with being greedy and therefore good at swindling people out of money (I've known people who were close to me who would make these comments to my face not realizing I was 1/4 Jewish), so are more likely to hire them into financial jobs, and a lot of powerful Jewish families have historical footholds in the sector and are more likely to hire within their own culture.
Anna Kyruin
2024-04-09 00:24:23 +0000 UTC~11:50, We absolutely need some sort of multi-party system. In order for that to be viable I feel like we need ranked choice voting.
Anna Kyruin
2024-04-08 23:43:25 +0000 UTC
