Mormon settlers killed or displaced indigenous people and then immediately created a monopoly on all the trade and industries in the land they settled. The Mormon church owns a 100+ billion (with a b) investment portfolio and they’re one of the largest land owners in the US
Sounds like the based tight knit religious community a lot of people on deprogram sub would argue for, basically communism! (/s for the first part, sadly likely not /s for the second)
afaik they do believe in communism in a sense, but they refuse to practice it until President Jesus Christ returns from space to become the CEO of church.
From their inception, they’ve lived in very interdependent communities with each other. I think chapo had an episode where Matt talked about it. They basically combine grindset with a circlejerk, making their communities wealthier.
Interesting model if it didn’t have a racist space god at its core.
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