Yet if the root causes are not addressed, everything that follows becomes a patch.
Michael Hudson came out with a book recently, making the point that the Ancients used debt jubilees to reset society, as too much wealth tended to gravitate to the middle, due to predatory lending going back to the dawn of civilization.
That actually Jesus's original message really was, "Forgive them their debts." as this practice had fallen by the wayside some centuries before. Though as his populist religion was co-opted to serve imperial Rome, it was changed to "Forgive them their sins." as a way to guilt trip people into submission.
That the western economic model has managed for the last several centuries is due to colonialism, slavery, industrialization and continued plundering of third world assets, as away to expand the first world asset bubble.
