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“... to rack Rents, and exact immoderate and excessive fines,... I mean, lifting them to such an high & unreasonable rate, that the tenant shall not live any thing comfortably thereby, but in extremity of toil and want, being forced either to use unlawful shifts, & base niggardice, or else to dash himself upon the rock of penury and need."

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“... to rack Rents, and exact immoderate and excessive fines,... I mean, lifting them to such an high & unreasonable rate, that the tenant shall not live any thing comfortably thereby, but in extremity of toil and want, being forced either to use unlawful shifts, & base niggardice, or else to dash himself upon the rock of penury and need."
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Greg Johnson (pteranodo@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 12:31:32 JST Greg Johnson

William Whately, English Puritan, complains about raising of rents in the English feudal system, making a decent working life impossible.
Anything like this ever happen today? Do we have to define the exact dollar number for “unreasonable rates”, with direct quotes from a bible passage, before we can feel any compassion for the suffering?
How can you help those in extremity of toil and want?
#christian #saytheirnames #thatallmaybefed #selfless #rebuildgaza

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