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[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

And it was very clearly understood by the early church. My favorite such example comes from Ambrose of Milan, who was very clear that rich people were incapable of giving gifts to the poor because they could, at most, restore some of the poor person's rightful property to him, which the rich hold in a static state of perpetual theft.