Quote from dandxg:
Question authority. Think for yourselves. Follow the money ... it leads to the truth.
Indeed.
Obscure Bible reference:
Amplified
Eccl 10:19 Instead of repairing the breaches, the officials make a feast for
laughter, serve wine to cheer life, and depend on tax money to answer for all of it. AMP
Septuagint
Second half - "But to the subjection of money all things will be obedient."
Douay-Rheims Bible
For laughter they make bread, and wine that the living may feast:
and all things obey money.
Two levels of interpretation:
Governmental level
Instead of taking care of building up the country
in the commonwealth the political leaders get rich to feed their own lusts
and line their own pockets to satisfy
themselves and use tax moneys to support their extravagance.
Individual Level
People tend to satisfy their lusts and desires but money defines their limits or bounds by accounting.
I suspect Keynesian economics wasn't the econ model of the day when this was written.