The text turns next to usury by asking why moneylenders and bankers are punished and by linking usury to a scorn for nature and art.
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Bankers
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Jiang asks why moneylenders, usurers, and bankers are punished and flags the question as especially pointed because Dante's father was himself a moneylender.
The War of the Roses is presented as almost destroying Britain and as being entangled with overseas bankers who could punish default by financing invasion.
Jiang says Canada's core problem is hollowing-out: capital and talent are fleeing while banker elites tied to transnational capital still govern it.
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"91. O son that heals all sight that is perplexed. When I ask you, your answer is so content that doubting pleases me as..."
"Why are money lenders punished? Why are usurers punished? Why are bankers punished? And Dante comes from a banking family, by the way, right?..."
"...is fleeing Canada. So Canada's being hollowed out. So as a banker, and Mark Carney used to work for Goldman Sachs, he used to..."
"...I don't have to pay you back. Okay? So now the bankers are angry at him. And if bankers are angry at you, you..."
"Okay? So the Medici's, the Florentine bankers, they sponsored a man named Henry Tudor, Henry Tudor, who is of the House of Lancaster. Okay?..."
"...the historically she married she died young but married like a banker yeah that's right so it's like if the banker came to maybe..."
"what's the problem with usurers? Yes. Maybe because fraud, because, the banker always keep telling lies. No, no. It's not fraud. It's something else...."
"...show you what the russians will do and how the private bankers are controlling you i'm not owned by anybody"
"No, no. The financial elite are these private bankers."
"Okay. So are the private bankers controlling me? Because you said I was in the media."
"...a war for the fundamental nature of reality. You have the bankers versus the tech bros, right? That's what we're seeing in the world..."
"...of alternative private currencies is for too long we've let central bankers control our money supply and they haven't done a very good job..."
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