The practical loophole for abandoning poverty was to treat houses and goods as borrowed rather than owned, allowing the order to function like a property-holding institution while preserving the form of the vow.
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Borrowing
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He argues that China's deflation spiral makes that negotiation path difficult because consumers who feel pessimistic about the future will not borrow and spend more.
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"no because they're all celibate right this is francisian order so they're supposed to marry poverty and so what do they do and and..."
"...he died this kind of went overboard like francis was were borrowing things left and right left and right and eventually they became the..."
"Look, China is first and foremost focused on protecting its national sovereignty. It knows what happens when you start to let in Western bankers...."
"...it's it's it's if you read the language carefully, he is borrowing a language, a structure from where, yes."
"...about justifying to people? Why are you, a citizen of England, borrowing money from these transnational capitalists, these merchants? And if you can't pay..."
"...buy U.S. Treasuries, which provide 5 % pay. Okay? So you're borrowing money at 0 % and then lending it out at 5%. And..."
"...budgets, deep state integration. He was allowed to buy X by borrowing against his X stock."
"...from the Federal Reserve at interest, okay? So the people are borrowing from the bankers, and so, that's why America is controlled by private..."
"Parliament that's borrowing the money the people always have to pay you back okay unless England is destroyed as a nation your uh loan..."
"...that each bank has is just crazy and who are they borrowing from the central"
"government the imf who are they borrowing from oh um yeah so they're they're borrowing from the future right they're boring from the nation..."
"...paying for these wars through with this gold but also by borrowing and so at the end of the 16th century Spain even though..."
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