Nathan Apffel
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2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jun
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I'm like, capitalism should have nothing to do with Christianity.
Yeah, I call it crony capitalism.
It's like the capitalistic structure is a beautiful economic structure, but it does corrupt if you don't keep it on guardrails.
And we constantly always talk about reform.
We constantly need to reform systems.
And even the biblical narrative is this idea of birth, death, and resurrection over and over again.
When something corrupts, you kill it as quickly as possible because new life comes out of that, beautiful new life.
It's like a forest fire.
you know, forests have to burn the deadfall.
Because if it doesn't, it just chokes out the forest.
And that's the point of a forest fire.
And so we have institutions and systems now that don't let the forest fire move through.
And that's politics and religion, right?
We bail out corporation because it's too big.
And it's just...
So that's why I beat this obsessive drum of reform over and over again, because these systems have leveraged capitalism to a point where it's just, I call it crony capitalism, and people, well, their excuse is, Nathan, capitalism is wonderful.
But it's like, sure, two things can be true at once.
Capitalism can be a great economic driver to lift a nation up out of poverty or up its GDP.
But at the same time, if you don't have guardrails on that capitalism, when new technologies come into play, it just creates opportunity for abuse.
And that's what we're seeing in government and in religion and organized religion is the systems haven't reformed.
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