Stop blaming corporate greed — The real reason you can’t afford anything is fake money
Sen. Rand Paul (D-KY) recently, and quite uniquely, nailed the true cause of the affordability issue. It isn’t corporate price gouging or other standard, conventional scapegoats — such as greedy corporations, or deregulation, or heavy regulation, or environmental restrictions on “drill, baby, drill.” It’s about the money. Prices going up across the board is the […]
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Commentary attributes rising prices to the monetary system
The only supplied on-topic coverage says prices are rising across the board and argues that the underlying cause is monetary rather than corporate greed or regulation. A historic Christian worldview calls for testing that claim carefully, describing economic causes truthfully, and judging institutions and individuals justly rather than relying on convenient scapegoats. It also asks how rising costs affect human dignity and whether responses show mercy toward poor and vulnerable neighbors.
Nobody is asking: What explanation and response best serve people struggling with higher prices while remaining truthful, just, and merciful?
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Stop blaming corporate greed — The real reason you can’t afford anything is fake money
The Washington Examiner attributes the affordability problem and broad price increases to the nature of money rather than corporate price gouging. It rejects greedy corporations, deregulation, heavy regulation, and environmental restrictions as conventional scapegoats.
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Proverbs 18:17
Ethical application · WEBHe who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.
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The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge. A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men. He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.
This interpretation is debated. Some Christians apply the verse broadly to media discernment, while others understand it more narrowly as wisdom about legal disputes and competing testimony.