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[–] 23 points 3 years ago (2 children)

It's an outcome of puritanical Protestantism in the modern day. It's nicknamed prosperity theology. Lack of wealth is seen as a moral failure, rather than a societal one. To be wealthy is to be granted abundance by God, and to be poor is to be punished for misdeeds in the eyes of God. It's a cruel ideal that is deeply embedded into right wing American religious spaces.

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