Greed was different in the Middle Ages.

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yeah you know I think it's interesting that alot of cultural conservatives seem to share
a pretty similar attitude toward greed and consumer culture. Similar I mean in some ways to those of us who would offer a critique of consumerism and a culture of greed from the left.

Those are sort of the cultual reactionaries who want to go back to when times were simpler or whatever. A lot of them also have a disdain for banks and bankers, conspicuous consumption, urbanization, and just many of the symptoms of modern capitalism.

I mean, they are experiencing the effects of capitalism in action: commodification of all resources including human beings, atomization and pressure on family units, corporate propaganda designed to get you to keep consuming, alienation from work and community.

Also they may not like the many of the good things that have come with our liberal verison of capitalism, like social emancipation of women, minorities, etc.

I just realized I don't have a point. But maybe there is some weird overlap where cultural conservatives offer in their own misguided way a critique of the cultural effects of modern capitalism.