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All right, Pestermark here, continuing our meaningless life study in Ecclesiasties today. We're talking about your stuff, your savior, and your satisfaction in Ecclesiasties,

Chapter 5 versus 8 through 20.

Selection season, I don't know if you've noticed but class conflict. It's back on the front burner. Yes. The debate between the rich and the poor, which is constant,

really increases during an election cycle and season.

And it is common for each side to villainize the other side.

So those who lean politically left will paint a caricature

of the rich as greedy, unscrupulous, godless people who rob the poor, rig the system, oppress the needy without any regard for the well-being

of others. Think Scrooge. Those who lean politically right have the opposite view intend to paint the poor as lazy,

unmotivated takers and freeloaders who elect politicians who will fleece the hardworking rich through

taxes and give their hard-earned money away to those who did not earn it and do not deserve it. Think of

basically thievary and stealing and crookedness and and a rig system where a lot of people are getting a lot of money from the government

and so they vote in elected officials who will then steal through the legal form of taxation

from the rich. I don't think I've taxation from the rich.

I don't think I've overstated the case.

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