Usury's A Crime Against God's Bounty Comments

There are only two sources of real wealth: Nature and Art - or, as we would put it, Natural Resources and the Labor of Man. The buying and selling of Money as though it were a commodity creates only a spurious wealth, and results in injury to the earth (Nature) and the exploitation of labor (Art) . The attitude to men and things as tradable commodity, which shylocking, extortionate money-lending, shark-loaning imply is a kind of blasphemy; since Art derives from Nature, as Nature derives from God, so that contempt of them is contempt of him.

The passage From the notes to Hell Canto XI, Dante elucidates, should be outlined in pokerwork and placed on the front-desk of every speculator, hedge-fund manager and investment banker now poised to bet on the ruin of post-truth reactionary world economies reigned by infinite greed and arrogant prejudice.
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