The exploitation of the poor and their wages must stop... International Corporations must not use their wealth, power and positions, to yoke the poor with slave wages.  America must not permit unrestrained trade between global corporations, who work to exploit the disparities in world markets... Wages, profits, environmental concerns, health, safety, and labor standards, must do more than simply inform our choices if we are to exist in a world economic system that is equitable toward all parties. 

An equal scale and just measure... must become the standard for commercial and private exchange. No one must be permitted to engage in privileged trade, to exploit the less fortunate, by the exercise of position and power.  Greed and avarice must not drive capital markets: income and one's return on investment must be earned thru innovation, the genuine product of one's labor or intellectual effort, not at the expense of others. 

Capital and Labor... must each contribute to the end product and receive their reward according to their effort, not out of a leveraged position, privilege, or raw power.  The concept that one should be permitted to exploit markets, because they can, must end. Ethics and moral standards for a reasonable, responsible, return on investment and wage, must replace greed and avarice.   We must not muzzle the Ox nor reap where we have not sown: A day's wage for a day's labor and an equal scale and measure must become the standard for commercial and private exchange.

The idea that a little greed never hurt is an oxymoron... there is no such thing as a LITTLE greed. All forms of greed must be replaced by just transactions. equitable exchanges. Transactions where both parties are satisfied and receive an equitable measure in the exchange. The idea that one is smarter or a better trader, thus justifies the exploitation of those less fortunate, must be replaced by ethical standards for exchanges.  Too, create markets where equitable exchanges will occur will require governments to restrain greed and avarice in their markets.  Governments have a roll in establishing standards for education and ethics, that support the creation of moral commerce: Feudal and Socialist dogma must be replaced by a balanced approach to commercial and private markets.

The distribution of wealth... must reflect the value of one's contribution to society.  Wealth must not be the product of one's position alone or created by privilege and raw power.  the manipulation of the marketplace must end.  Those with much must become responsible for the use of their wealth. They must not seek to disadvantage others out of greed or avarice.  The accumulation of vast amounts of wealth and power must not be the primary motive behind commerce.  A grander vision of the Judeo/Christian ethic must replace the worldly concepts of capitalism and socialism as they exist today. (And every variation thereof). 

Godly commerce... the moral exchange of goods and services, must be guided by a just measure, an equal scale. A system of weights and measures (ethical standards) which are inculcated in our culture, thru education and the introduction of Godly commerce, must be forthcoming if we are to end the divisiveness within mankind.  Wars and strife are often the product of immoral trade and economic oppression.

St. James put it this way... From whence come wars and fighting's among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?  Ye lust , and have not:  Ye kill, and desire to have,  and cannot obtain:  ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.  Ye ask, and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts..." (James 4:1-3)

Basically, mankind struggles upon the earth seeking security in his possessions... desiring to achieve an advantage over others.  Cain slew Able over such desire and its been downhill ever since. Mankind lusts and has not, he desires to have and cannot obtain, this leads to war, to the defrauding one's brother and neighbors.  We must learn to overcome the darker angels of our soul, those which cause us to lust after what we have not earned. We must end our innate desire to reap where we have not sown, too deny the OX his due or the merchant his reward.  We must die to self and become more like Christ.

Until we acknowledge the underlying greed... the lusts of the flesh, the struggle to have that which we cannot obtain, thru our personal labor and capital endeavors, there will be no peace in the Earth. Mankind will war against his brother and neighbor, seeking to TAKE that which is not his, out of the lust for that which others have.  We must not covet that which is our neighbor's property. We must find a way to overcome greed and avarice; too, live in peace with all men, as much as possible.  That way, is the way of Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.  If mankind will eat of His Flesh and drink of His Blood (to become as Christ), the living Word of God.  Then, man becomes part of His Divine Body; free from the lust of the flesh, a new creation. .. able to live with all men in peace.

However, world peace in our time is not likely to occur... given the greed and avarice loose in this world.  Today, the heart of mankind is driven by lust: Those who have not, kill but are never satisfied, because man is consumed by lust, he wants more than he can obtain.  It is in this lost state that man is doomed to consume his brother and eventually all of mankind.

 

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  • Man is born of woman naked … and with an innate need he cries out to be satisfied... this want only grows with time... consuming him if he doesn't find God and His Spirit... by which he overcomes his nakedness.

  •  i think that no one will ever agree on everything that is a given but as for wars well when someone wants what others have who are not willingly giving it up.   some just take.  

    as to strife well man is funny some are just takers some givers when the givers no longer want to give then things can happen.   

    this nation has had givers and takers but now there is a more powerful enemy it is that the Dem/Socialists are hell bent on the total destruction of America and all this nation is if u do not agree w/them God u r demonized or see what they are doing to brett kavanaugh and his family.   they do not care   this is also war and one we cannot loose.

  • Greed and Avarice... twin mortal sins, whose grasp upon the heart of men has created chaos in a world where God intended man to live without such covetousness.

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