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As someone from a catholic household who associates more with this than a pop-cultural reference I have really mixed feelings about this.
On one hand it is good that people think and reflect about what is a sin or a virtue. On the other hand I cannot support the degradation of these universal concepts on only a monetary system. They are designed to apply universally on our lives on purpose.
Yes of course, you could write article after article about how it applies to every individual aspect of your life. I just decided to write about how it applies to how I think about money, but you could have written it about how you apply the virtues to education for example.
I could have just as easily written about how people fall into the 7 deadly sins when deciding on Bitcoin (and scam coins with greed, envy, and gluttony), but I chose to focus on the good, because focusing on the bad helps people less than understanding how to build on what is good.
That all being said, the reknowned economist F.A. Hayek once said "Law, language, money. The three paradigms of spontaneous government institutions" Well language shapes how people think. Like I said, focusing on how to do good helps people do good, better than focusing on what's bad. That's a language change. The law feels quite self-explanatory. "Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome" -Charlie Munger. If the law punishes people for doing good and rewards people for lying and cheating, the people you live with are going to reflect that kind of world. In the same way, if your money punishes people for doing good (refusing the sin of usury will mean a bad credit score which is used to decide if you can rent a car or rent at all for example) then the people you live with are going to reflect this structure in the same way. This idea is really what I wanted to dive into, however, that should not mean that it has been degraded or pigeonholed into being only about a monetary system.
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Yes, you are right.
There's a lot to write about these sins/virtues, an entire book if you like. But you kept it much shorter possible in your write up and focused on money/bitcoin related.
Will take time until more people will learn these aspects. But no worry, Bitcoin will teach them all the way forward. For more they go deep on the rabbit hole, more they will learn.
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