Want to make sure you land a spot in heaven?
No need to bother yourself with fulfilling commandments or doing good deeds. But it’s definitely going to cost you plenty.
Bidders flooded eBay with bids for “My Portion in Olam Habaah (Heaven),” which had been listed for sale by a Jewish man from Teaneck, N.J. The price started at 99 cents and skyrocketed within hours to nearly $100,000.
Then the online auction giant took down the listing, citing rules that require items for sale must be “tangible.”
In the third segment of David Harvey’s course “Reading Marx’s Capital,” it is suggested that indulgences sold by the Papacy made the Vatican the first capitalist institution in the world. In medieval times, an amount of gold could buy you a place in the mother of all theme parks, Heaven. Capitalism, then, is nothing but the historical labor or struggle of bringing down to Earth a kingdom that was once cloud land. What am I getting at? Only this: One is more likely to find the rudiments of capitalism in the idea of heaven (intangible) than in the market or agora (tangible).
