• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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    13 hours ago

    Forget decades. Try millennia. Historically people didn’t even think being wealthy came from working hard and good decisions… but that God willed it that you be rich.

    • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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      11 hours ago

      Well yeah, for ages, literally the richest dude, be he king, emperor or great Khan or what the hell ever was “blessed by heaven and god and had the divine right”.