servants of debt

[stone]

In the Torah, it is written that if a man owed a debt, and was unable to repay the debt, that person became a servant to the one that he owed.


Just thinking out loud here really, i had a thought about this and about debts today.

My conclusion is that almost everyone today is a slave to a bank, or financial institution.

Mortgages are debts that most people have today.

So, doesn't this make most humans today slaves to a bank?

[muffler dragon]

In the Torah, it is written that if a man owed a debt, and was unable to repay the debt, that person became a servant to the one that he owed.


Just thinking out loud here really, i had a thought about this and about debts today.

My conclusion is that almost everyone today is a slave to a bank, or financial institution.

Mortgages are debts that most people have today.

So, doesn't this make most humans today slaves to a bank?

I would agree that being in debt makes you a slave to a particular financial institution. However, I am not an advocate of only purchasing IF you have the cash. If someone can pay something off after procuring through credit; then I don't find any problem with that.

[HeatherMicaela]

I would say that is correct stone. And I think we should rally to get back a "year of jubilee" so poor people like me who did not ever intend to get into debt (but did through no fault of our own) could be freed.

[HadassahSukkot]

I'm with Heather.

We can be servants or slaves of our debts. Servants (paying back) and Slaves (in debt and getting in deeper) are two different animals.

I was the latter, and now am the former.

Btw, some good folks came over as slaves to their debts and definitely did good for the US society once free of it. :)

[visionary]

It is a goal of mine, to be free of debt. Working towards it.

[ChavaK]

And I think we should rally to get back a "year of jubilee" so poor people like me who did not ever intend to get into debt (but did through no fault of our own) could be freed.

In modern times, this is called "bankruptcy" :D

[ChavaK]

In the Torah, it is written that if a man owed a debt, and was unable to repay the debt, that person became a servant to the one that he owed.


Just thinking out loud here really, i had a thought about this and about debts today.

My conclusion is that almost everyone today is a slave to a bank, or financial institution.

Mortgages are debts that most people have today.

So, doesn't this make most humans today slaves to a bank?

The owner of the slave was
required to feed the slave before himself, give
the slave a pillow if there was only one rather
than use it himself; and to set him free after
seven years.
I think this is quite a different relationship than
what we have to financial institutions.
In Torah times, it was more a relationshp of a
indentured servant, rather than a slave.
The master had a heart...banks certainly do not.

[debi b]

The master had a heart...banks certainly do not.

Boy ain't that the truth!

[ContraMundum]

In the Torah, it is written that if a man owed a debt, and was unable to repay the debt, that person became a servant to the one that he owed.


Just thinking out loud here really, i had a thought about this and about debts today.

My conclusion is that almost everyone today is a slave to a bank, or financial institution.

Mortgages are debts that most people have today.

So, doesn't this make most humans today slaves to a bank?

Welcome to Marxism. :)

You're absolutely right. (Because the Torah is right, of course).