Sunday, April 21, 2002:
The Ten Commandments (Economists' Version)
Thou shalt have no other gods before Me, save thy landlord, thine employer, and thine employer's landlord.
Thou shalt not make for thyself any graven image; for thine employer shall provide graven images for thee, and to them only shalt thou bow down.
Thou shalt not invoke the name of the LORD thy God against unearned privileges; for the process of time doth convert wrongs into perpetual tradeable rights.
Remember the sabbath day and offer it for a sacrifice to thine employer: for if thou wilt not sacrifice thy sabbaths to thy master, another servant will; and if thy master will not sacrifice his servants' sabbaths to his landlord, another master will.
Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayest inherit their estate; for the labour of thy youth shall not suffice thee in thine old age.
Thou shalt not kill, but needst not give up thy privileges to keep nameless multitudes alive.
Thou shalt not commit adultery, but shalt make ostentation of riches while thou art yet unmarried, that she who would become thy neighbour's wife may become thine own.
Thou shalt not steal; for he that biddeth against his fellow for a place to work and a place to dwell shall willingly give thee all that he hath.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour, but shalt bear false witness against thy neighbour's ideas if the implications thereof be inconvenient unto thee.
Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy neighbour's, but shalt covet every thing that is thy neighbourhood's.
