LOL those are pretty funny notes to see after what happened yesterday...

Yea I totally agree. Voluntary trade in a free market adds value to society. If you get rich via this method, it is because you've added a lot of value.

It seems to me that she has so much faith and confidence in her religion and the behavior of her ingroup, that it supersedes other thinking wrt economics.

If you'll forgive some fairly aggressive (and maybe incorrect!) mind-reading on my part: She would **prefer** a world in which an ideologically aligned community builds a cathedral, either through pooled funds or donations from the well-endowed, in order to benefit their ingroup now and in the afterlife. Rather than a cathedral-building entrepreneur taking an interest-bearing loan to achieve the same project.

Because such a world would reify her metaphysical beliefs, she prefers it so strongly that it seems to become "obviously true" and all alternative scenarios must be construed as evil and/or impossible (this latter bit evidenced by bending over backwards to insert "usury" and "greed" where it doesn't belong, and doing some interesting math to make the case that loans don't work under a bitcoin standard)

I think I came a little too close to making that case directly, and she reacted badly :)

If she hadn't muted me she could come here and explain exactly how wrong I am and what a dick head I'm being - I'm all ears. but alas...