I read, in an article by David Boyle in Radical Economics this morning, that in 1485 it took a peasant 15 weeks a year to earn enough to survive. By 1564 this had gone up to 40 weeks. Nowadays, especially if you want to live in the South East of England, both partners will need to work all year just to afford a house!
Are we enslaved to the economic spirit of the age? This is not always a lifestyle decision, if you want to buy a house and you're on a teacher's salary.....
Then I read Celtic Daily Prayer, it quoted the bible passage about the unclean spirit who's cast out of a person, but then comes back with seven, worse spirits
"and the last state of that person
is worse than the first."
I wonder if this is the story of our, so called economic progress? We're more enslaved than medieval peasants! Who can save us from this oppression?
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