In the readings for Living
Justice what caught my interest was that the church really has tried to view
ownership in a broad spectrum in which it tries to benefit everyone. One thing that bothered me was that it
mentioned that Christianity had, “prohibition against the hoarding of wealth.” This kind of bothered me because how can you
prohibit that if that person probably earned with their own labor what they
have acquired. Yes, it is bad to keep
all the wealth in the eyes of many, but you cannot punish them for that for
they have worked their way to it. Later
on it moves on to saying something that seems a lot more efficient because it
picks at larger areas of profit such as utilities which everyone uses. This moves on to a different case because
regardless of wealth status everyone depends on utilities and these are
services and products that should be widely available and readily cheap for
people to use.
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