My understanding of his anger was that business was happening in the temple, not that it was about profit. Did he really think that no one should earn from their labor? If someone grows food and sells it to someone who needs food, Jesus would get mad because that means the former is profiting off of the latter? I'm no expert on the Bible, but that sounds very odd to me. Current "capitalism" as practiced in most countries is probably more proof of stake than of work, but that's the "crony" part of crony capitalism and in any case based on a monopoly over the money supply, which is about as far from capitalism as one can get. If we replace the words "free trade" for "capitalism" do you still think bitcoin is in opposition to it?

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BlueDuckBTC 7 months ago
Let’s just start with the first sentences and question. He was angry that people were profiting in his fathers house (one could argue the whole world is his house) and they were profiting off those buying sacrifices for god AND didn’t have much. Sacrifices were essential to their way of living, and profiting off the people for this angered him. Nobody said anything about not being compensated for work performed. Profit and compensation are not the same.
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BlueDuckBTC 7 months ago
If we replace capitalism with free trade, then no, bitcoin does not oppose free trade. Very insightful question, thank you for asking that.